30 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1828. mination with which his work was begun, and the high 

 hopes which he felt of the work the University had to do. 

 How well his part was done, after years, and the con- 

 senting voice of many pupils whose own work bore the 

 fruit of his teaching, have given proof. 



What part he had in obtaining for the College its 

 subsequent reputation it is not for me to say. How he 

 was repaid, the judgment of the future must deter- 

 mine. 



The Mathematical class during the first session con- 

 sisted of nearly one hundred pupils. In the next year 

 there was an increase of numbers. The Professor gave 

 two lectures every day, the first from nine till ten A.M., 

 the second from three to four in the afternoon. After 

 each lecture he remained for a time at his desk, in order 

 that pupils who had found any part obscure might come 

 to him to have their difficulties cleared up. In this way 

 the two lectures occupied about three hours in the day, 

 and the pupils' exercises which were to be examined 

 rather less than an hour more. 



Various proposals had been made by the most active 

 among the Professors for improving the condition of the 

 institution; among those which were carried into effect 

 were the foundation of a day school in connection with 

 the University, and the annual distribution of prizes and 

 honours. But, as might be expected from the elements of 

 which the new institution was founded, it could not go on 

 long smoothly. Troubles began soon after the opening, 

 due to arrangements which resulted from the forma- 

 tion of a constitution and laws before the working neces- 

 sities of the institution could be known ; and all the mis- 

 apprehensions which soon arose among the component 

 members were traceable to this cause. These were set 

 forth chiefly in the following pamphlets, printed for 

 private circulation : 



1. c A Letter to the Shareholders and Councillors of 

 the University.' 



