Loose sheet at front of volume: 'Key to Names from Initials' [omits John Henry Ellis].
Mock definition of 'Parallelipiped', '... there be some do clepe this the Regular Bricke', from 'Ben Jonson's English Dictionary' facing title page. Full title given as 'Proceedings of the Blessed Confraternity of the Parallelepided in hebdomadal function assembled. Figure of brick drawn out below title, with the initials of one of the founders of the society - Handley C. G. Moule, Joseph A. Lobley, Duncan C. Tovey, [John] Henry Ellis, Charles B. Davies, John H. I. Oakley - written on each face. Quotations below: 'Of the tale of the bricks ye shall not diminish aught' [Exodus 5.8]; 'As atoms in one mass united mix, / So bricks attraction feel for kindred bricks' [Smith (1812), Rejected Addresses].
This volume contains papers given at meetings of the society in 1864; they are listed on the back of the title page by term and date (including the Long Vacation), with the initials of the author and the running page number. The initials of the original members are also written out on the page opposite, with a note recording an 'Election' in 'October Term', in which Clifford was elected to join the society when Henry Ellis left Cambridge.
Titles of papers given include 'On Hellenolatry', and 'On Organ-Grinding' by J. A. Lobley, and 'Devotional Feelings of a Heathen', by C. B. Davies. A paper given by H. C. G. Moule to the Classical Association at Durham, 26 May 1917 entitled 'The Classics as an influence in education and a joy in life' has been inserted before f. 176. It mentions 'the dear raftered attic in beloved Trinity' where the following paper was first read, and remembers the friends from the society of which he is now the only surviving member.
Parallelepiped Society