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175 by his father, perhaps luckily for his health [and his brains], did not permit him to indulge in such habits. As he was too proud to accept what he could not return, he lived much out of society; and he thus lost one of the advantages of college to a poor man—that of making private friends."

Smith gained his Fellowship at Oriel at the end of his second year at New; and the annual income attached to the position, one hundred pounds, not only made him independent of his father, but enabled him to pay a school-boy debt of thirty pounds, contracted to his brother, years before.

This shows us the pleasant, honest, self-respecting side of a many-sided man who was always honest and self-respecting, and who made, and kept, many private friends, a large majority of whom still love him, although they never saw him in the flesh.