CHAP. VI.] SCHOLAR OP TRINITY. 161 



(Letter G-, Old Court, south. Attics), succeeding to his 

 friend Blakiston, and passed his Little-go. In April 

 of the same year he gained his scholarship, and was 

 now launched without further necessary distraction 

 on the long pull of preparation for the Tripos under 

 Hopkins. But his energies were by no means ab- 

 sorbed in this continuous "grind." He contributed 

 various papers to the Cambridge and Dublin Mathe- 

 matical Journal, did not confine himself to mathe- 

 matics in the May examination, and in November, 

 besides writing the comic Vision of a University, of 

 Pedantry, and of Philosophy, made elaborate prepara- 

 tion for a College declamation, " the Scottish Cove- 

 nanters" being the subject characteristically chosen 

 by him. 



In June he had paid a short visit to Oxford, 

 and made a trip to Lowestoft with P. GL Tait, before 

 settling at Cambridge (to read and bathe) for the 

 vacation term. 



Living in college and dining at the scholars' table, JEt. 21. 

 he naturally became more intimate with the other 

 scholars, and he appears especially to have sought 

 contact with classical men. To the names of Cra- 

 croft, Whitt, and Blakiston, amongst his newer friends 

 are now added in his correspondence those of " Droop 

 the ingenuous," Gedge, Howard Elphinstone, Isaac 

 Taylor, Maclennan, 1 and Vaughan Hawkins. 



The idea of self-improvement in society had taken 

 a firm hold of him, and he was conscious of the 

 difficulty of guiding himself amongst so many cross 



1 The late J. F. Maclennan, author of Primitive Marriage, etc. 

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