232 THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. [CHAP. IV. 



as fellow-commoner to Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; 

 and the account given by one who was afterwards tutor 

 of the college brings the Professor of the Eoyal Insti- 

 tution most clearly into view. 



When the Master [says the writer] introduced Young to 

 his tutors, he jocularly said, ' I have brought you a pupil 

 qualified to read lectures to his tutors.' This, however, as 

 might be concluded, he did not attempt ; and the forbearance 

 was mutual : he was never required to attend the common 

 duties of the College. 



He had a high character for classical learning before he 

 came to Cambridge ; but I believe he did not pursue his 

 classical studies in the latter part of his life he seldom 

 spoke of them, but I remember his meeting Dr. Parr in the 

 College Combination Room ; and when the Doctor had made, 

 as was not unusual with him, some dogmatical observation 

 on a point of scholarship, Young said firmly, ' Bently, sir, 

 was of a different opinion,' immediately quoting his authority 

 and showing his intimate knowledge of the subject. Parr 

 said nothing, but when Dr. Young, retired asked who he 

 was, and, though he did not seem to have heard his name 

 before, he said, ' A smart young man that.' 



He had a great talent for Greek verse, and on one occasion 

 I remember a young lady had written on the walls of the 

 summer-house in the garden the following lines : 



Where are these hours on airy pinions borne, 

 That brought to every guiltless wish success, 

 When pleasure gladdened each succeeding morn, 

 And every evening closed with dreams of peace ? 



On the next morning appeared a translation in Greek 

 elegiacs, written under them in Young's beautiful characters. 

 It may be here mentioned that when his mode of writing 

 Greek was laid before Person, he said that if he had seen it 

 before he would have adopted it. 



