i8 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



an undergraduate under the present system to 

 follow up a particular line of study for which he 

 has special aptitude, and these avenues of learning 

 are far more varied than of yore, but in the opinion 

 of many there is more probability of one who had 

 taken, say, a first class in the Classical School half 

 a century ago being an " all-round man," to use a 

 common phrase, than one who has taken equally 

 high honours at this day in any one of the various 

 "schools" for which Alma Mater trains her chil- 

 dren. This, however, is a point which cannot here 

 be discussed. 



My father used frequently to admit that he had 

 no taste whatever for mathematics. The fifth pro- 

 position of the first book of Euclid always puzzled 

 him ; indeed, it is doubtful if he ever fairly got over 

 it ! The classics, to use his own words, he " drank 

 in like water ; " he delighted in them, and even to 

 his latest years it gave him pleasure to quote from 

 them, as he frequently and aptly did in his sayings 

 and writings. 



When he entered the University, and for many 

 years after, there were but two examinations for a 

 degree, Responsions, or "Little Go," and the final 

 examination, or "Great Go," as it was then called. 

 Being naturally of a studious turn of mind, and 

 having such a strong liking for classics, he deter- 

 mined at the outset of his career to read for honours, 

 and to that end he applied himself diligently. Before 

 taking his degree he read for a short time with 

 Rev. G. A. Jacob, then head-master of Bromsgrove 



