Though he became the favourite and leader of young men who were much his superiors in wealth and station, he was much too generous to endeavour to propitiate them by any meanness or cringing on his own part, and would not neglect the humblest man of his acquaintance in order to curry favour with the richest young grandee in the university.
His name is still remembered at the Union Debating Club, as one of the brilliant orators of his day.

By the way, from having been an ardent Tory in his freshman's year, his principles took a sudden turn afterwards, and he became a liberal of the most violent order.

He avowed himself a Dantonist, and asserted that Louis the Sixteenth was served right.

And as for Charles the First, he vowed that he would chop off that monarch's head with his own right hand were he then in the room at the Union Debating Club, and had Cromwell no other executioner for the traitor.

He and Lord Magnus Charters, the Marquis of Runnymede's son, before-mentioned, were the most truculent republicans of their day.
There are reputations of this sort made, quite independent of the collegiate hierarchy, in the republic of gownsmen.