to this entitles a
member to join in any of the recognised games. The funds are
administered by a committee consisting of the representatives of those
interested in the different games, and grants made from the general fund
towards the expenses of each game. The presence of a few senior members
of the College on the committee provides the continuity so difficult to
maintain with the short-lived generations of undergraduate life. The
College provides the ground for the cricket, football, and lawn-tennis
clubs, while through the generosity of members of the College of all
standings a handsome boat-house has recently been built on the river.
The College also possesses flourishing musical and debating societies,
and from time to time clubs arise for literary and social purposes,
dying out and being refounded with great persistence.

In another sphere of work the College has taken a leading part. St.
John's was the first College in Cambridge to start a mission in
London--the Lady Margaret Mission in Walworth. Preaching in the College
Chapel on 28th January 1883, the Rev. William Allen Whitworth, a Fellow
of the College, then Vicar of St. John's, Hammersmith, afterwards
Incumbent of All Saints', Margaret Street, suggested that the College
should support a mission in some neglected district of London. The
matter took form a little later in the year, and since then the College
Mission has been a College institution. Members of the College visiting
the mission district, and visitors from Walworth coming for an annual
outing, including a cricket match, in August.

Another flourishing institution is the College magazine, _The Eagle_.
Founded in the year 1858, it has maintained its existence for nearly
fifty years, being now the oldest of College magazines. It has numbered
among its contributors many who have subsequently found a wider field
and audience: some of the earliest efforts of Samuel Butler, author of
_Erewhon_, are to be found in its pages.

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I now bring my sketch of the College history to a close. I have
endeavoured, within the prescribed limits, to give an outline of the
corporate life of an ancient and famous foundation. In writing it two
classes of readers have been borne in mind: the visitor who, within a
short compass, may wish to learn something more than can be picked up by
an inspection of the buildings; members of the College who feel a lively
interest in the habits