For while Newman justified Mr.Cleaver by going over to Rome, his own sons, including Froude's pupil, became Puseyite clergymen of the highest possible type.

Froude returned to Oxford at the beginning of 1842, and won the Chancellor's Prize for an English essay on the influence of political economy in the development of nations.

In the summer he was elected to a Devonshire Fellowship at Exeter, and his future seemed secure.

But his mind was not at rest.
It was an age of ecclesiastical controversy, and Oxford was the centre of what now seems a storm in a teacup.

Froude became mixed up in it.