At the period, however, which we have now reached, the College seems to have been recovering its pristine efficiency and reputation. Richard Lovell Edgeworth, the father of Miss Edgeworth, entered Corpus as a gentleman-commoner in 1761, his father having “prudently removed him from Dublin.” “Having entered C. C. C., Oxford,” he says,[245] “I applied assiduously not only to my studies under my excellent tutor, Mr. Russell” (father of Dr. Russell, the Head-master of Charterhouse), “both in prose and verse. Scarcely a day passed without my having added to my stock of knowledge some new fact or idea; and I remember with satisfaction the pleasure I then felt from the consciousness of intellectual improvement.” “I had the good fortune to make acquaintance with the young men, the most distinguished at C. C. for application, abilities, and good conduct. … I remember with gratitude that I was liked by my fellow-students, and I recollect with pleasure the delightful and profitable hours I passed at that University during three years of my life.” He tells some characteristic stories of Dr. Randolph, the “indulgent president” of that time, whose “good humour made more salutary impression on the young men he governed than has ever been effected by the morose manners of any unrelenting disciplinarian.” It is curious to contrast the account of Mr. Edgeworth’s Corpus experiences with that given by Gibbon of his Magdalen experiences some nine or ten years before this time, or with Bentham’s account of his undergraduate life at Queen’s, which almost coincided with that of Mr. Edgeworth at Corpus. Something, however, may, perhaps, be set down to the difference of character and temper in the men themselves.