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Salting (initiation ceremony)
Saltings were festive ceremonies which, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, initiated Cambridge and Oxford freshmen into the academic and social communities of their individual colleges.〔Elizabeth P. Freidberg, ''Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments'', Volume I (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994)〕 Humorous speeches by one or more sophisters (second- or third-year students) introduced first-year students to the assembled college society. Recently texts of several salting speeches have been identified. Relatively little is known about the conventions governing these entertainments; when the tradition died out in the mid-seventeenth century, most of the performance details were lost as well. Nevertheless elements of the tradition are preserved in the texts and may be amplified by students' diaries, tutors' account books, and university statutes regulating the custom.
==Contemporary accounts==
Saltings seem to have been performed - with periodic lapses - in various colleges in both universities for over one hundred and fifty years. The earliest known reference to the custom, dated 1509-10, is the record of a salting payment made by John Fisher on behalf of his protégé Gilbert Latham of Christ's College, Cambridge.〔''John Fisher's Personal Account Book'' (St John's College Archives MS D.57.34, fol. 5v), cited in Alan H. Nelson, Cambridge, REED, 2 vols (Toronto, 1989), Appendix 12, pp. 996-1001.〕 The latest dated reference is Anthony Wood's reminiscent account of his own salting ceremony at Merton College, Oxford in 1647-8. Wood states that the tradition, at least at Oxford, had fallen into disuse by the time of the Restoration.〔Andrew Clark, ''The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, described by Himself'', 5 vols (Oxford, 1891-1900), I, p. 140〕
At Cambridge salting ceremonies, the "father" delivered a speech in verse addressing each of his "sons" in turn - punning on names, joking about appearances, highlighting personal traits or idiosyncrasies, or telling witty anecdotes about each one. The freshmen were apparently sometimes required to respond, but whether their ripostes were meant to be prepared or extemporaneous is unclear.
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