612 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



extra ^T.gour of his mind and a certain tendency to domineer. Witit 

 Everett, in his lectures entitled " On the Cam," the expression is 

 " Trinity's honoured head ; " but Bristed, in his Five Years at au 

 English University, speaks of " Whewell's awful presence." He 

 was a Lancashire man, of stalwart frame and powerful physique f 

 German, perhaps, rather than English, in the character of his counten- 

 ance, which was open, fresh-hued, and round. In his younger 

 academic days he was regarded with respect by the bargees of the 

 river and the roughs of the town, between whom and the gownsmen 

 there used to be, some years ago, periodical passages of arms. I 

 have myself seen serioiis conflicts of this kiiid in the streets of Cam- 

 bridge ; quite senseless afiairs, but attended with considerable risk to 

 skin and limbs. If on such occasions one happened to be out of his. 

 own rooms and belated somewhere with a friend, it was highly 

 advisable, when returning home to College, to get under the lee of 

 Whewell, or some one else of his bulk and build. I was in residence 

 when the old-fashioned " Charley," or watch, disappeared from the 

 pavement and the modern policeman took his place. The efliect on. 

 the public peace of Cambridge was very soon apparent. Whewell 

 has left memorials of himself in Cambiidge of the old durable 

 mediaeval kind. Previous to his death, a so-called Hostel for the 

 accommodation of Trinity students was added to the College by his 

 munificence ; also a quadrangle, known as the Master's Court. 

 Princely endowments were afterwards bequeathed by him for the 

 perpetual maintenance of these augmentations to Trinity. He like- 

 wise by his will established and endowed a chair of International 

 Law, with scholarships for students in the department of science. 

 Whewell's first wife was a sister-in-law of Lord Monteagle (Spring-. 

 Rice) ; his second was the widow of a clerical baronet (Sir Gilbert 

 Affleck). By the custom of England this latter lady retained her 

 name and title after her second marriage. The invitations ta 

 the Lodge iised then to run in the following cimous form : — " The 

 Master of Trinity and Lady Affleck request the honour, &c." At 

 Cambridge it was humorously said that Whewell's name was one 

 that ought to be whistled. This was to correct the wrong rendering 

 of it sometimes heard Whe-well. Another little jest among under- 

 graduates used to be that no book of Whewell's ever appeared without 

 the assertion somewhere or another in it of Newton's Three Laws of 

 Motion. As years rolled on, an epigrammatic saying became ciuTent. 



