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92 a chance to play a little now and then, and do not make them dull boys by means of too much study and too much work.

Keble's rooms are said to have been, and perhaps they were, "at the top of No. Five Staircase in the right-hand corner of the Quadrangle," formerly, according to exploded tradition, occupied by Hooker.

John Keble won his scholarship to Corpus in 1806, and a Double First in 1811, upon the strength of which latter he became a Fellow of Oriel in the same year, and was thereafter more intimately associated with the latter institution of learning.

In 1831, four years after the publication of "The Christian Year, Thoughts in Verse, for Sundays and Holidays," he became Professor of Poetry in the University.

Thomas Arnold, than whom there never lived a professional teacher more universally loved and more universally respected by the men he taught, was a fellow-student of Keble at Corpus, and a fellow-Fellow at Oriel. In 1811 he was elected a Scholar of Corpus. "Retired he was in his habits," says Mr. Justice Coleridge in a letter to Stanley, "and not forward to interfere with the pursuits and studies of the younger men; but I am bound to record not only his learning and good taste, but the kindness of his heart and his