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He soon became an ardent sportsman and excellent 

 shot, and rarely until his fatal illness began did he 

 ever fail to keep the Twelfth of August and the First 

 of September in the proper way. 



When George Romanes was about seventeen, he 

 was sent to a tutor to read in preparation for the 

 University, his mother having suddenly awakened to 

 the fact that he was nearly grown up and not at all 

 ready for college. One of his fellow pupils was Mr. 

 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 Romanes. 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 follow 

 him. 



In October 1867 G-eorge John Romanes entered 

 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 



CAMBRIDGE. 1867-1873 



Most men feel that their University life is one of 

 the most marked phases of their career. Even 

 those who come up from a public school, with iM 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, realise 

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

 Oxford or Cambridge plays in their lives ; how it is 

 in their University life they make their intellectual 

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

 will influence their whole life. 



