He was exceedingly gentle in voice and manner, and had all his father's placidity of temper: children and dogs took to him as by instinct.
On leaving Mr.Welby's, Kenelm carried to Cambridge a mind largely stocked with the new ideas that were budding into leaf.

He certainly astonished the other freshmen, and occasionally puzzled the mighty Fellows of Trinity and St.John's.

But he gradually withdrew himself much from general society.

In fact, he was too old in mind for his years; and after having mixed in the choicest circles of a metropolis, college suppers and wine parties had little charm for him.

He maintained his pugilistic renown; and on certain occasions, when some delicate undergraduate had been bullied by some gigantic bargeman, his muscular Christianity nobly developed itself.