COLLEGE SALTING

"E.V.," after quoting the passage given by Mr. Cooper from Anthony Wood, proceeds:— It is clear from Owen's epigram that there was some kind of *salting* at Oxford as well as at Cambridge; is it not at least probable that they were both identical with the custom described by old Anthony, and that the charge made in the college book was for *the cawdle* mentioned above, as provided at the freshman's expense; the whole ceremony going under the name of "salting," from the salt and water potion, which was the most important constituent of it? If this be so, it agrees with Dr. Maitland's idea, that…