A Man who knew nothing at all;
When he took his degree
He was past fifty-three—
Which is youngish for Magdalen Hall."
The Professor snarled like an angry dog, and said, witheringly, that, if that was a specimen, the book must be sorry stuff indeed. After luncheon I walked away with another undergraduate, rather senior to myself, who said rejoicingly, "You've made a good start. That rhyme is meant to describe old Dingo."
FOOTNOTES:
[13] "The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed." University Sermons. Series II.
[14] The Rev. C. M. Davies, D.D.
[15] University Sermons. Series II.
[16] "He had gained University honours, such as have been gained by no one now living, and will probably never be won again.... He was one of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the century. His chief and highest intellectual interests lay in an unknown world into which not more than two or three persons could follow. In that world he travelled alone."—From a Memorial Sermon by B. Jowett.