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Elegant Retort
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IT is a common occurrence in the University of Cambridge for the
undergraduates to express their approbation or disapprobation of the
Vice-Chancellor, on the resignation of his office. Upon an occasion of
this kind, a certain gentleman had enacted some regulations which had
given great offence; and, when the senate had assembled in order that he
might resign his office to another, a great hissing was raised in
disapprobation of his conduct; upon which, bowing courteously, he made
the following elegant retort:--
Laudatur ab his.
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