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Tutor, Mr. Shaw, who was himself generally to be seen on 

 the Heath on these occasions. 



Nor were the ecclesiastical authorities of the College 

 over strict. I have heard my father tell how at evening 

 chapel the Dean used to read alternate verses of the Psalms, 

 without making even a pretence of waiting for the congre- 

 gation to take their share. And when the Lesson was a 

 lengthy one, he would rise and go on with the Canticles 

 after the scholar had read fifteen or twenty verses: 



It is curious that my father often spoke of his Cambridge 

 life as if it had been so much time wasted,* forgetting that, 

 although the set studies of the place were barren enough for 

 him, he yet gained in the highest degree the best advantages 

 of aUniversity life the contact with men and an opportunity 

 for mental growth. It is true that he valued at its highest 

 the advantages which he gained from associating with Pro- 

 fessor Henslow and some others, but he seemed to consider 

 this as a chance outcome of his life at Cambridge, not an 

 advantage for which Alma Mater could claim any credit. 

 One of my father's Cambridge friends was the late Mr. J. M. 

 Herbert, County Court Judge for South Wales, from whom 

 I was fortunate enough to obtain some notes which help us 

 to gain an idea of how my father impressed his contempo- 

 raries. Mr. Herbert writes : 



" It would be idle for me to speak of his vast intellectual 

 powers . . . but I cannot end this cursory and rambling 

 sketch without testifying, and I doubt not all his surviving 

 college friends would concur with me, that he was the most 

 genial, warm-hearted, generous, and affectionate of friends ; 

 that his sympathies were with all that was good and true ; 

 and that he had a cordial hatred for everything false, or vile, 

 or cruel, or mean, or dishonourable. He was not only great, 

 but pre-eminently good, and just, and lovable." 



Two anecdotes told by Mr. Herbert show that my father's 

 feeling for suffering, whether of man or beast, was as strong 

 in him as a young man as it was in later years : " Before he 

 left Cambridge he told me that he had made up his mind 

 not to shoot any more ; that he had had two days' shooting 

 at his friend's, Mr. Owen of Woodhouse ; and that on the 

 second day, when going over some of the ground they had 



* For instance in a letter to Hooker (1847) : " Many thanks for your wel- 

 come note from Cambridge, and I am glad you like my Alma Mater, which I 

 despise heartily as a place of education, but love from many most pleasant 

 recollections." 



