served, though he appeared to have got on badly
with the other fellows, and to have had many
quarrels, which often resulted in blows. On one
occasion, he told me afterwards, five students
came to his bedroom for what would now be called
a "rag," and after a desperate struggle he suc-
ceeded in throwing them all out.

In any event, the college authorities decided to
send him down for the remainder of the term, of
which, however, there was only a fortnight left.
Although there was no reason why he should not
have returned at the beginning of the next term,
as he had not been expelled, he steadily refused
to do so, and his education thus concluded with-
out his taking a degree.

There is no doubt that the fact of his never
having been at a real school, and having a con-
tinual change of tutors, coupled with the per-
functory nature of his studies at college, con-
siderably hampered him in after-life. He often
expressed to me his regret that he had not received
a better education, and, even, that he had not
devoted himself with more application to such
opportunities as he had for study. One result
was that he was always afraid of lapsing into an
error of grammar or spelling, and for a consider-
able time wrote out his speeches word for word,
and carefully corrected them before delivery.
His letters, also, throughout his career show fre-
quent signs of erasure and alteration.

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