It saved him from wasting his time in instructing others when he ought to be instructing himself.
From the point of view of advantage to the University, it is perhaps the most signal instance of the mischief of strictly clerical fellowships, now happily things of the past.

Only one fellowship at Christ's was tenable by a layman: to continue in academical society, therefore, he must have taken orders.

Such had been his intention when he first repaired to Cambridge, but the young man of twenty-three saw many things differently from the boy of sixteen.

The service of God was still as much as ever the aim of his existence, but he now thought that not all service was church service.

How far he had become consciously alienated from the Church's creed it is difficult to say.