I went to take leave of our college tutor.

"Mr.
Pelham," said he, affectionately squeezing me by the hand, "your conduct has been most exemplary; you have not walked wantonly over the college grassplats, nor set your dog at the proctor--nor driven tandems by day, nor broken lamps by night--nor entered the chapel in order to display your intoxication--nor the lecture-room, in order to caricature the professors.

This is the general behaviour of young men of family and fortune; but it has not been your's.

Sir, you have been an honour to your college." Thus closed my academical career.

He who does not allow that it passed creditably to my teachers, profitably to myself, and beneficially to the world, is a narrow-minded and illiterate man, who knows nothing of the advantages of modern education..