Xll LIFE OF DR. IiOLLESTON. 



was elected. It was in 1847 that he came into residence, and 

 one who came up about the same time describes him as a tall 

 thin lad, looking quite a schoolboy, with his clothes showing 

 recent growth of limbs which had left the tailor behind. Another 

 contemporary, who knew him well, remembers how young he was 

 in every way, beginning at first sight to tell with schoolboy 

 frankness all about his study at Sheffield, how he furnished it, 

 how the boy next him had died, and how he had read all his 

 Greek plays. 



The Master of the College did not mind his youth, and only 

 said, ' He is a clever Yorkshireman, and when a Yorkshireman 

 is clever, he is clever.' Boy as he was, he took rank at once. 

 It was the time when the College was undergoing transforma- 

 tion. Dr. Jeune, Dean of Jersey (afterwards Bishop of Peter- 

 borough), had lately succeeded Dr. Hall as Master. Under him 

 Pembroke was just on the change from a small close foundation, 

 chiefly limited to certain schools and localities and to founders' 

 kin. The buildings were insufficient and some were dilapidated, 

 and the undergraduates few, when the new Master set himself to 

 fill the ranks of the College; funds supplied by benefactors 

 were made effective in open scholarships and fellowships, and 

 rebuilding and reorganisation had gone well forward before 

 the time came when parliamentary powers were obtained to 

 do away with the limitations of the old foundation. Thus 

 Rolleston's connexion with*Pembroke began in years of change 

 and activity, and threw him into the midst of a society more 

 mixed even than usual through the overlapping of the old and 

 new regimes. Though never hiding his own strong likes and 

 dislikes, he already had the faculty of getting on with men 

 of different kinds, the boating men, the fast men, the quiet 

 reading men, and the dilettanti, who would nowadays be called 

 aesthetes. Yet his character was already so fixed, that the 

 influences which might have moved a more moveable disposition 

 left him substantially what home teaching had made him years 

 before. In the common dissipations of undergraduate life he took 

 no part; in fact, he worked too hard. When he lived out of 



