It is a singular circumstance that the only opposition to the measure came from Grattan and his party, who urged that, as the Roman Catholics had recently been allowed to matriculate and take degrees at Trinity College, though not to share in the endowments of that wealthy institution, the endowment of another college, to be exclusively confined to Roman Catholics, would be a retrograde step, undoing the benefits of the recent concession of the authorities of Trinity; would be "a revival and re-enactment of the principles of separation and exclusion," and an injury to the whole community.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
By the time I had reached seventeen it had become obvious to my father-or, rather, to the people at the University, who so advised him-that if I was to be able to matriculate at Balliol I must set my intellectual house in order and learn something of the things upon which alone one could matriculate.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
He would matriculate in the October term, and in January enter for a demyship.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch