He formed an entirely new plan of life, and diligently persevered in it.

He became one of the most industrious of students.

One by one he distanced his competitors, and at the end of the year he came out Senior Wrangler.

What he afterwards accomplished as an author and a divine is sufficiently well known.
No one recognised more fully the influence of personal example on the young than did Dr.Arnold.It was the great lever with which he worked in striving to elevate the character of his school.

He made it his principal object, first to put a right spirit into the leading boys, by attracting their good and noble feelings; and then to make them instrumental in propagating the same spirit among the rest, by the influence of imitation, example, and admiration.