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234 as a Commoner in 1816; he became a Scholar in 1818; and he left Oxford in 1846. He was made an Honorary Fellow in 1878, and he presented a set of his works to the College Library in 1885. "Trinity was dear to me," he said, "and never unkind." But it is as a Fellow of Oriel that he is best remembered in Oxford. His rooms at Trinity, on No. Fourteen Staircase, little changed and still used by students, unfamiliar, no doubt, with the name of Newman, can be inspected upon the payment of the traditional shilling to the obliging Hall-porter.

After Newman's return to Oxford in 1884, he lived at No. 16 St. Giles Street and became a very familiar figure in the University circles. Edward Augustus Freeman, the Historian, gained a Scholarship at Trinity in 1841, was graduated in 1845; was a Fellow until 1847; was several times Examiner in Modern History, and was Regius Professor of Modern History in 1884.

As an undergraduate he was slight in figure, retired in manner, and very shy and silent in the presence of strangers. The entries in his Journal, which he began to keep in Oxford, show that it was his habit to attend chapel twice a day; that almost invariably he went to hear the University sermon at St. Mary's; and that not