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

CHAPTER VII

TUTORIAL AND OTHER INTERESTS. 1850-1854
(Aet. 33-36)
WIDENING social horizon-Bunsen-Sir C. Trevelyan-TennysonTutorial methods-Vacations-Mr. W. L. Newman's reminiscences.
ASwe turn from these public activities to resume the
tenor of his life in Oxford, we may take occasion
to observe the expansion of Jowett's social interests,
which were scarcely ever separated from his educational
and other labours. His pupils of some years back were
about to enter public life: his friends and colleagues
were rising to positions where they could help him in
pushing the fortunes of younger men. Lingen became
Secretary to the Education Department in I849, and in
recommending Examiners and Inspectors relied on
Jowett's advice more than on that of any other of the
Oxford Tutors'. C. J. Vaughan, Stanley's brother-inlaw, was Head Master of Harrow, and Balliol men
became assistant masters there. Temple, in whose conversation Jowett delighted more than in that of any
other man, had gone to be the Head of a training
college for workhouse school teachers, which had been
recently founded at Kneller Hall in the neighbourhood
of Twickenham; and in i858 succeeded Goulburn at
Rugby. At Jowett's recommendation, Temple took
Palgrave to be his lieutenant at Kneller Hall. Morier,
1 W. H. Thompson of Trinity was similarly Lingen' mainstay at
Cambridge.
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