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COLLEGE LIFE. 



[Chap. II. 



of York. His son-in-law, the Rev. J. Kenrick, M.A., F.S.A. 

 (who died May, 1877, in his ninetieth year), was tutor 

 in classics, history, belles lettres, and German. He had 

 studied at Gottingen and Berlin, as well as at Glasgow, and 

 as a scholar was second to none in the country. All that he 

 wrote was distinguished by " thoroughness of knowledge, with 

 the highest finish of execution." He conferred great benefit on 

 scholars by his translation of Zumpt's Latin Grammar, and by 

 his editions of Matthise's Greek Grammar. Among his works 

 may be mentioned " Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs" (two 

 volumes), " Phoenicia," and a memoir of the Rev. C. Wellbe- 

 loved. We were very proud of such a tutor, and those whom 

 he taught felt his moral and intellectual influence. Unfortu- 

 nately, he was suffering from a complaint in the eyes most of 

 the time that Philip was at York, and his lectures were read 

 to the students by others — in this year by Dr. W. C. Perry, a 

 recent student, who had just returned from Gottingen. With 

 the resident tutor, the Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S., who lectured on 

 mathematics and philosophy, Philip found a bond of sympathy 

 in his ardent love of natural history ; his son, the Rev. T. 

 Hincks, B.A., F.R.S., was one of the senior students when 

 Philip entered, and was his predecessor at Warrington. His 

 successor there, the Rev. J. N. Porter, was also then at York ; 

 and so were the Rev. W. Mountford, M.A. (who, in 1850, went 

 to Boston, U.S., where he had obtained a high reputation by his 

 " Martyria," " Euthanasy," etc.), and the Rev. Dr. Vance Smith 

 (one of the committee for revising the translation of the New 

 Testament). There were then sixteen divinity students. Mr. 

 Kenrick wrote to Dr. L. Carpenter, July 14, 1838 : — 



" The actual decline and extinction of many of our congre- 

 gations, the threatened wholesale loss of chapels and endow- 

 ments by Calvinistic usurpation, make the prospects of students 

 for the ministry more unpromising, and their lot more un- 

 attractive than ever. And beside these causes, which make 

 parents destine their sons to other professions, there seemS a 

 tendency in Unitarians at present to refine away everything 

 that is tangible and influential in the creed of Unitarians of the 



