Max Muller was the most intimate of them, and among his few surviving contemporaries was Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke, a clergyman more distinguished in mathematics than in theology.

The Rector of Exeter* gave a cordial welcome to the most illustrious of its former Fellows.

The Provost of Oriel+ was equally gracious.

In the younger generation of Heads his chief friends were the Dean of Christ Church,^ now Bishop of Oxford, and the President of Magdalen.# But the Oxford of 1892 was so unlike the Oxford of 1849 that Froude might well feel like one of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

And if there had been many changes in Oxford, there had been some also in himself.