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Charles Edmund Lister, brother of the present owner 

 of Shibden Hall, Halifax. With Mr. Lister he formed 

 a friendship destined to be only broken by Mr. Lister's 

 premature death in 1889. This friendship had impor- 

 tant results for George Eomanes. He had been in- 

 tended for Oxford, and his name had been entered at 

 Brasenose College, but Mr. Lister was to go to Cam- 

 bridge, and he easily persuaded his friend to foUow 

 him. 



In October 1867 George John Eomanes entered 

 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 



CAMBEIDGE. 1867-1873 



Most men feel that their University hfe is one of 

 the most marked phases of their career. Even to 

 those who come up from a pubhc school, with all the 

 prestige and with all the friendships, the sense of 

 fellowship, the hundred and one influences, the cus- 

 toms of a great school ' lying thick ' upon them, reahse 

 more and more, as time goes on, how great a part 

 Oxford or Cambridge plays in their hves ; how it is 

 in their University hfe they make their intellectual 

 choice, and receive the bias which, for good or for cAdl, 

 will influence their whole Hfe. 



And to this raw boy, fresh from a secluded and 

 somewhat narrow atmosphere, plunged for the first 

 time into a great society, brought for the first time 

 under some of the influences of the then ' Zeitgeist,' 

 into contact with some of the leaders of thought, 

 entrance into the University was the beginning of an 

 entirely new life. 



He entered Cambridge, half-educated, utterly un- 

 trained, with no knowledge of men or of books. He 

 left it, to all intents and purposes, a trained worker 

 and earnest thinker, with his life work begun — that 

 ■work which was an unwearied search after truth, a 



