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1818-1824.
Macaulay goes to the University--His love for Trinity College--His contemporaries at Cambridge--Charles Austin-- The Union Debating Society--University studies, successes, and failures--The Mathematical Tripos--The Trinity Fellowship--William the Third--Letters--Prize poems-- Peterloo--Novel-reading--The Queen's Trial--Macaulay's feeling towards his mother--A Reading-party--Hoaxing an editor--Macaulay takes pupils.
IN October 1818 Macaulay went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Mr.Henry Sykes Thornton, the eldest son of the member for Southwark, was his companion throughout his university career.

The young men lived in the same lodgings, and began by reading with the same tutor; a plan which promised well, because, in addition to what was his own by right, each had the benefit of the period of instruction paid for by the other.

But two hours were much the same as one to Macaulay, in whose eyes algebra and geometry were so much additional material for lively and interminable argument.