Then he said he was sorry for that, as he meant to nominate me for a studentship.

This, however, never came to pass, and so the matter dropped; until Dean Gaisford succeeded Dean Smith, and Joseph lost his Pharaoh.
At college I lived the quiet life of a reading-man; though I varied continually the desk and the book with the "constitutional" up Headington Hill, or the gallop with Mr.Murrell's harriers, or the quick scull to Iffley, or the more perilous sailing in a boat (no wonder that Isis claims her annual victims), or the gig to Blenheim or Newton-Courtnay,--or that only once alarming experience of a tandem when the leader turned round and looked at me in its nostalgic longing to return home,--or the geological ramble with Dr.Buckland's class,--or the botanic searchings for wild rarities with some naturalist pundit whose name I have forgotten; and so forth.

In matters theological, I was strongly opposed to the Tractarians, especially denouncing Newman and Pusey for their dishonest "non-naturalness" and Number Ninety: and I favoured with my approval (_valeat quantum_) Dr.Hampden.I attended Dr.
Kidd's anatomical lectures, and dabbled with some chemical experiments--which when Knighton and I repeated at his father's house, 9 Hanover Square, the baronet in future blew us up to the astonishment of the baronet _in praesenti_, his famous father.

Also, I was a diligent student in the Algebraic class of Dr.Short, afterwards the good Bishop of St.Asaph; and I have before me now a _memoria technica_ of mine in rhyme giving the nine chief rules of trigonometry, but not easily producible here as full of "sines and cosines, arcs, chords, tangents, and radii," though helpful to memory, and humorous at the time, ending with "At least I have proved that nothing is worse Than Trigonometrical Problems in verse:" there are also similarly to be recorded my mathematical _seances_ with that worthy and clever Professor, A.P.Saunders, afterwards headmaster of Charterhouse; and my Hebrew lectures with the mild-spoken Dr.Pusey, afterwards so notorious; and I know not whatever else is memorable, unless one condescended to what goes without saying about Hall and Chapel, and Examinations: however, some frivolous larks in the Waterford days, wherewith I need not say the present scribe had nothing to do, may amuse.

Here are three I remember; 1.