100 
Easter term of the following year. He came up to the University 
an excellent classical scholar of the type produced by the great 
English public schools, and with the social tastes and disposition 
which are fostered in those schools. He was especially eminent in 
Greek and Latin composition, and the faculty of lucid and graceful 
statement developed by these accomplishments proved of invaluable 
service to him in the various administrative duties which he was 
called upon in after life to perform. He combined with his 
scholarly attainments an appreciative taste for modern literature, and 
especially for the great English poets, and his interest in the philo- 
sophical, which are combined with the more strictly literary, studies 
of the University, and in the speculative questions by which Oxford 
life was powerfully stirred in the years succeeding the great religious 
movement of which Dr Newman was the centre, was soon awakened. 
He read widely and discriminatingly, but with no special eye for 
examinations ; and thus it happened that his name is remembered 
among those of a select few (including Clough, Mr M. Arnold, Mr 
Eroude, Mr Freeman, M. Pattison, and others), who, by their 
subsequent eminence, justified the opinion that the second class in 
Litterce Humaniores often contained men of greater power and 
promise, if of less minute knowledge, than the first. He graduated 
in 1848, and in the following year he was elected, out of a large 
number of candidates, to an Oriel Fellowship. As circumstances 
had made it necessary for him to support himself from this time 
forward by his own exertions, he immediately became one of the 
private tutors, a class somewhat like that of the privat-docenten in 
the German Universities, who performed a much more important 
part in Oxford education in those days than they do at present. 
The preparation of the best men for their final examination in philo- 
sophy was almost entirely in their hands. Although most of them 
were men of older standing, he very soon was recognised as the 
most eminent of the body, and amongst his pupils were several men 
who have since obtained distinction in various walks of life, who 
acknowledged the benefit they derived from his instruction. He 
lived with his pupils on the most easy and familiar footing, and 
attached them to himself by his friendliness and social geniality. 
At the same time, he taught his subject — the Nicomachean Ethics of 
Aristotle — more thoroughly than it had been taught in England 
