Page:Literary Landmarks of Oxford.djvu/62

40 then a walk or a boat. He confessed that while at college he was so plagued by these foolish lectures of the college tutors that he had little time to do anything else; but later he spoke most affectionately of the University, and acknowledged that he "carried from it, into life, a taste for those studies which contributed the most interesting of his subsequent pursuits."

Edward Henry Manning went up to Balliol in 1827, taking with him a remarkable reputation for athletics and sportsmanship. He was a bold rider, a skilful oarsman, an excellent cricketer, a good shot; but he had no great name as a scholar. A certain dictatorial air of authority led to his being called "The General" by his fellow-students, some of whom declared, in after times, that he was then given to dogmatic disputations upon subjects of which he knew little or nothing. Nevertheless, he ended by hard reading; and he made his mark in his College, in the Union, and in the University.

Robert Scott, a graduate of Christ Church, known to the students of American colleges chiefly as Scott of the firm of Liddell and Scott, became a Fellow of Balliol in 1835, acting as Tutor until 1840. In 1854 he was elected Master of Balliol, defeating Jowett, who succeeded him in 1870. Owing to Scott's zealous devotion to its interests and to scholarship generally, Balliol, during his