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215 Francis Jeffrey also went down from Queen's without a degree. He remained in the College from September, 1791, until July, 1792, and he left because he disliked the place, and found his companions uncongenial. He was diminutive of stature; and walking was the only physical exercise in which he indulged. All he gained at Queen's, we are told by one of his contemporaries, "was to overcome the native burr of his speech, and to acquire, in its place, an unpleasing English accent, high-keyed and sharp in pronunciation." This, with an extreme rapidity of utterance, which he never more than partially overcame, always marred his oratory.

Walter Pater entered Queen's as a Commoner in 1858; and he was coached by Benjamin Jowett, who prophesied that the youth had a mind which would bring him to great eminence. Jowett was quite right, but the youth gained his eminence as a man at Brazenose, of which he was a Fellow for many years.

The members of St. Edmund Hall, as being so near to Queen's, not only in locality but in association, may be considered here. Nothing but the narrow Queen's Lane divides them in space, and they are admitted to the lectures given in, or connected with, Queen's.

The Hall is said to have derived its name from