The young lecturer developed an amazing power of work.

That concentration which he had been unable to achieve for himself his will was strong enough to maintain when it was a question of meeting the demands of a college class in which he was deeply interested.

He became a stimulating and successful teacher, and one of the most popular of men.

His passionate sense of responsibility toward his pupils made him load himself with burdens to which he was constantly physically unequal, and fill the vacations almost as full as the terms.
And as he was comparatively a man of means, his generous, impetuous temper was able to gratify itself in ways that would have been impossible to others.

The story of his summer reading parties, for instances, if one could have unravelled it, would have been found to be one long string of acts of kindness toward men poorer and duller than himself.
At the same time he formed close and eager relations with the heads of the religious party in Oxford.