The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

I02 Lzfe of Benjamin Jowett [CHAP. IV
otherwise, much where we are, getting a little deeper and
filling up a little more in speculation,-and reforming the
kitchens of University and Balliol.'
The position of Jowett in Balliol and his growing
credit as a teacher may be further illustrated by the
following reminiscences contributed by the late Archdeacon Palmer:
'Balliol College in 1842, when I came into residence as
a Scholar, was in many respects very unlike the Balliol
of the present day. The Chapel and the Hall and more
than half of the other buildings have been erected since that
time, and a College Garden has been created by the union
of two gardens, then walled off for the use of the Master and
of the Fellows respectively, with an irregular piece of ground
called the Grove, which was absolutely devoid of beauty,
though covered with trees. Moreover the number of Commoners in the College is at least twice as large now as it was
in my day, and the number of Scholars and of Exhibitioners
has been doubled also. But these differences, however striking,
are only superficial. In more important respects the College has
preserved a uniform character for a good deal more than half
a century. Its Masters, Tutors, and Lecturers have devoted
themselves ungrudgingly to its service, and among its undergraduates the proportion of reading men to idlers has been
greater than anywhere else in Oxford. But I am asked to set
down briefly my own undergraduate recollections.
'In Michaelmas Term, I842, when I first came up, there
were only four undergraduate Scholars in residence, four besides
myself, James Riddell, Matthew Arnold, Edward Walford, and
C. S. Lock. Lock was a Blundell Scholar from Tiverton.
The rest of us came from public schools of greater name.
Indeed, this was the case with all the open Scholars who were
elected from i838 to i845 inclusive, except William Young Sellar.
He was a Snell Exhibitioner from Glasgow University. Of
the other fifteen Scholars elected in those eight years, five came
from Rugby, three from Shrewsbury, three from Charterhouse,
two from Eton, one from Harrow, and one from Winchester.