1 837- 1 840.] 



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take his turn as secretary, whose duty it was to copy the papers, 

 invite the club to tea, and then read the number. They were 

 very lively, pleasant, good-humoured meetings ; and part of 

 the fun was, afterwards, to guess the authors. Philip threw 

 himself heart and mind into the " Poz. : " when many senior 

 students had left, he resolved that this should not decline. He 

 hardly ever wrote less than two papers, and no doubt the 

 practice in composition was of service to him. He used to 

 keep me fully informed of the contents and quality of each 

 number, and when it was his turn to be secretary, he impressed 

 me and some other friends : " You will say I am very 

 exorbitant ; but I don't care : I am like a shark for the Poz. ! " 



He worked with equal energy, though with less delight, for 

 the Sunday school ; for he found few to help him, or to 

 appreciate his high standard. He visited the children at their 

 homes, never allowing himself to be baffled by difficulties in 

 finding them. The plan of building the school-room was given 

 up : when the Lord Chancellor had given judgment against the 

 Lady Hewley trustees, there was a fear of adding to property 

 that might pass into other hands.* A space in the chapel was 

 arranged for the school ; and the school library and other 

 effects were to be removed there from the room that had been 

 rented. The teachers " wanted to hire a man ; however, I 

 caused them to assemble one Monday night, and we made a 

 removal by candlelight. If I had not been a bit of a carpenter, 

 and told them what to do, I believe we should not have done 

 till midnight ! " 



One of his fellow-students was Mr. W. H. Herford, B.A., 

 of Manchester, his life-long and intimate friend. He writes to 

 the editor: "We first met on, or about, the last Friday of 

 September, 1837, when he entered York as a divinity student 

 of the second year, and I as one of the first year. I do not 

 recollect precisely the first impression he made upon me : other 

 of my new comrades were photographed on my memory the very 



* Rooms were erected, in 1878, at a cost of about £900, called the 

 Kenrick Rooms, in memory of the Rev. J. Kenrick, one of the chief con- 

 tributors. 



