be comparatively easy for others to carry on.

'It is my desire to give some slight impression of his life in College,
and I do not wish to say much about his teaching work. I must mention,
however, what frequently struck me, the great joy he had in teaching;
his success was not surprising. When he found (in January last) that
he could not take up all his lecture work he would not allow another to
give in his place the course of lectures on Church History. "I want,"
he said to me, "to give them myself in my own way," and he hoped to
have given them this Easter term. I was not surprised to hear from a
pupil of the interest that he and others found in a similar course of
lectures which he had given the previous year. "He put things so," the
pupil told me, "that you could not forget what he had said."

'My last recollection of him as a teacher bears witness to his interest
and purpose. Word was brought me before morning chapel that he had
been obliged to call in the doctor in the middle of the night. I went
to his rooms after chapel and found that he was asleep, I put up a
notice that he would be unable to lecture. He awoke soon after I had
left his rooms; he had another notice put up that he would lecture in
his rooms. When I came back to College later in the morning I looked
in and found him lying on his sofa with the room full of men, sitting
where they could. The class will not forget that lecture, nor shall I
forget the sight.

'When two men have lived a number of years within the same College, it
is difficult for them to {38} realise the change in their relationship
that has come with time. There is a comradeship that comes through the
influence of circumstances rather than from that personal attraction
which two men feel for one another, and which arose they don't remember
when or how. It was this comradeship of work and the sharing of
responsibilities that led me to know Forbes Robinson. We had lived
some years in College before I knew much of him; I was some years his
senior, and our lines of work were very different. As far as I know,
he never talked to older men in that frank way which was his custom
with those of his own age, and still more with men younger than
himself. Some weeks ago I was staying at the hotel on the Riviera
where he had been at Christmas time. The English lady, whose husband
keeps the house, told me that with them Forbes Robinson hardly talked
at all, but that he took their