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ever actively concerned in politics, either national or of 

 the University. 



We are all furious here ; the Council has refused to 

 allow a petition against Gladstone's Bill to come before 

 the Senate, and I believe we shall have to nonplacet 

 every Grace till the Council comes to its senses. But 

 I do wish we had a leader one could respect. The last 

 squib though from the other side is good — 



O Teddy Perowne 1 is gone to his own, 

 He is gone to his own in a chariot, 

 On a fizzing hot plate he is sitting in state 

 With Pilate and Judas Iscariot. 



1 It has just struck me that this is an obvious mistake, and for 

 "Teddy P," I should read "Billy Gladstone. "—A. N.* 



When Lord Salisbury went to Cambridge in 

 January, 1891, he confessed that he had never been 

 to a political meeting in his life, and thought it useless 

 at his time of life to begin the practice of attending. 



In College politics, as well as in greater affairs, he 

 was staunchly conservative, and in the progressive days 

 at the beginning of this century it often happened that 

 he voted in a minority of one. The following instances, 

 familiar to many Cambridge men, of his sturdy opposi- 

 tion to change have been so well told by Mr. Benson 

 that they may best be given in his own words : — 



Shortly after this date (1905) music was introduced 

 into the service. There had not been a musical instru- 

 ment in the chapel since 1680, or any species of music, 

 and the introduction of the harmonium was a sore blow 

 to the Professor, who had hitherto successfully resisted 

 all attempts to establish an organ in the chapel. When 

 hymns were introduced, it was an unfailing amusement 

 to see the Professor open a hymn-book, and survey the 

 scene with ill-concealed disgust. He used to shut the 



* Letter to H. B. Tristram, June 6, 1869. 



