When the Judges approach Cambridge, the Master
of Trinity goes out to meet them, and expresses the hope that
they will make their home at the College during their stay;
to which the Judges reply that "They are coming." The Head
of the College conducts them to the door. When it is reached,
each party bows and invites the other to go in. They go in,
and the Judges stay until the Assize is over. This ceremony
has gone on for four hundred years, and it never yet has been
settled whether the Judges have a right in the Master's house,
or only are there as guests and by courtesy. I suppose that
in the United States both sides would fight that question
until it was settled somehow. Each would say: "I am very
willing to have the other there. But I want to know whether
he has any right there." I asked about the truth of this
story. Dr. Butler said it was true and seemed, if I understood
him aright, to think the Judges' claim was a good one. Mr.
Wright, the Deputy Master, to whom I also put the question,
spoke of it with rather less respect.
CHAPTER XXIV
A REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
I have had occasion several times to prepare the Republican
platform for the State Convention.
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