The chapel services, especially at Magdalen, brought back old times and tastes.
As Professor of History he became a Fellow of Oriel, where he had been a commoner in the thick of the Oxford Movement.

If the Tractarian tutors could have heard the conversation of their successors, they would have been astonished and perplexed.

Even the Essayists and Reviewers would have been inclined to wish that some things could be taken for granted.

Modern Oxford was not altogether congenial to Froude.

While he could not be called orthodox, he detested materialism, and felt sympathy, if not agreement, with Evangelical Protestants.