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that if I were to tell you what my living costs me per week, 

 you would be a little bit astonished. . . . They are working 

 us most uncommonly hard." He found what it was to have so 

 many professors^ each desirous that his subject should receive 

 full attention, and wrote to, his brother : "I feel it the worst 

 part of my stay here, that I am hurried on from one thing to 

 another, and have not a single hour to think. So I suppose 

 my mind must be content to digest, which is perhaps not so 

 very bad a things as I had more than a year's thought last 

 year." To my remonstrance at his overwork, he replied, " I 

 take my regular exercise, and sleep, and eat lots. What I mean 

 by working hard, is not wasting any time : I like to work 

 steadily while I do work ; but keep regular hours. I am not 

 one of those who go and read papers at the Athenaeum, and 

 then sit up late to make up, and say they are overworked ! " 

 He had felt it a duty, as a senior student, to keep up the old 

 York clubs — the Shakespeare, the Debating, and, above all, the 

 Repository. He would naturally have been ejected censor of 

 the " Poz. ; " but, for various reasons, he thought it better that 

 his friend, W. H. Herford, should have the appointment. 

 " Somehow or other," he writes, " such is the weakness of 

 human nature, though it was my own deliberate doing, yet I 

 felt an agitation and struggle at it, though I have pretty well 

 reconciled my mind to it now." His friend fully appreciated 

 his disinterestedness, and remembers thinking the honour con- 

 ferred on him greater, relatively, than any he was ever likely 

 to earn ! Instead of having a party when he came of age, 

 Philip resolved that his special entertainment should be when, 

 as secretary, he invited the members to his room • and he 

 copied out his number with unusual care, to set a high standard 

 for the new series. 



He had to preach almost every Sunday, and though he 

 expresses great disgust at having to repeat his old sermons, the 

 change, no doubt, did him good, and he benefited by his varied 

 experience. When he was preaching at the Strangeways 

 chapel, for his friend Mr. Mountford, his sister Mary heard 

 him for the first time, and relates that his manner may be well 



