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1834-41] ORDAINED DEACON 57
"Mem.- -To inquire about L Universite de France Educa
tion Cours de France Juges Election a la Chambre des
Deputes L Universite de Paris Qui est-ce qui nomme les pairs ?
-Loi de Primogeniture Succession aux titres de la noblesse-
Sorbonne."
In Paris they had some French lessons from a M. de
Maison.
" He gave us a wonderful rule for the genders of
nouns all with un are masculine, with une feminine."
On returning to Balliol in October 1835 he was
requested by the Master to undertake the tutorship
vacated by Moberly s appointment to the Head-mastership
of Winchester. Looking back upon it forty years after
"
wards he wrote as follows : A totally new field of
interest was opened to me in the tutorship of the fore
most College in Oxford. Of course I succeeded to some
eminent pupils whose time was already half over : among
them Arthur Stanley, James Lonsdale, and Wickens. But
my own peculiar class, with which I began my lectures,
was certainly not undistinguished, including Waldegrave,
Goulburn, Lake, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Jowett, and Hugh
Pearson. I was established in Moberly s rooms, the best
in Balliol, and I am vain enough to think that my lectures
were as good as any others in the College, and that for
a young man of twenty-three I found myself in a some
what unusual position of importance and usefulness."
On Trinity Sunday, 1836, he was ordained Deacon on
his College Fellowship, by Dr. Richard Bagot, Bishop
of Oxford. The Ordination sermon was, to his great
delight, preached by his friend Mr. Oakeley. The entry
in the journal is as follows :
May 28, 1836. I have now for three terms been public
Tutor, and what a field of usefulness has this opened !
I trust
I have not forgotten the great responsibility which has devolved
upon me, but v
still, how little have I done ! Thirteen immortal
souls committed to my charge, and that at the most critical