Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. The single instance of blackletter font uses the ‘=’ as a delimiter. The footnotes have been re-sequenced for uniqueness across the text, and positioned to follow the paragraph in which they are referenced. Footnote 95 (originally footnote 1 on p. 227) has two separate references in the text, both of which are retained. There were very few and minor typographical flaws in the copy from which this version is derived. These have been corrected, with no further notice. Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere [Illustration] Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by J. Willis Clark, M.A. Registrary of the University of Cambridge formerly Fellow of Trinity College London Macmillan and Co. Limited Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes 1900 All Rights reserved ~Cambridge:~ PRINTED BY J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. PREFACE. I have frequently been asked to write my _Memoirs_, or I should rather say, my _Recollections_. I have serious doubts as to whether I recollect anything of value; and, even if I do, I have no time at present to commit it to paper. But, as the University, when I first knew it, was a very different place from what it is now; and as it has fallen to my lot to write several biographical notices of distinguished Cambridge men, in the course of which I have noted incidentally a good many of the constitutional and social changes of later years, I venture to republish what I have written. Such compositions, many of which were dashed off on the spur of the moment, under the influence of strong feeling, with no opportunity for correction or amplification, are, I am aware, defective as a serious record of lives which ought to have been told at greater length. But, that they gain in sincerity what they lose in detail, will, I hope, be conceded by those who take the trouble to read them.