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church.

_October 6._--Fin. second Olympiad of Pindar.... Clarendon. Did an
abstract of about 100 pages. Wrote speech for to-morrow in favour
of Caesar.

_November 13._--Play. Breakfast with Hallam. Read a little
Clarendon. Read over tenth Satire of Juvenal and read the fifth,
making quotations to it and some other places. Did a few verses.

_November 14._--Holiday. Wrote over theme. Did verses. Walked with
Hallam and Doyle. Read papers and debates.... Read 200 lines of
_Trachiniae_. A little _Gil Blas_ in French, and a little
Clarendon.

_November 18._--Play. Read papers, etc. Finished Blair's
_Dissertation on Ossian_. Finished _Trachiniae_. Did 3 props. of
Euclid. Question: Was deposition of Richard II. justifiable? Voted
no. Good debate. Finished the delightful oration _Pro Milone_.

_November 21._--Holiday.... Part of article in _Edinburgh Review_
on _Icon Basilike_. Read Herodotus, Clarendon. Did 3 props.
Scrambling and leaping expedition with Hallam, Doyle, and Gaskell.

_November 30._--Holiday. Read Herodotus. Breakfasted with Gaskell.
He and Hallam drank wine with me after 4. Walked with Hallam. Did
verses. Finished first book of Euclid. Read a little _Charles XII_.

_February 27_, 1827.--Holiday. Dressed (knee-breeches, etc.) and
went into school with Selwyn. Found myself not at all in a funk,
and went through my performance with tolerable comfort. Durnford
followed me, then Selwyn, who spoke well. Horrors of speaking
chiefly in the name.

_March 20._--My father has lost his seat, and Berwick a
representative ten times too good for it. Wrote to my father, no
longer M.P.; when we have forgotten the manner, the matter is not
so bad.

_March 24._--Half-holiday. Play and learning it. Walked with
Hallam, read papers. Hallam drank wine with me after dinner.
Finished 8th vol. of Gibbon; read account of Palmyra in second
volume; did more verses on it. Much jaw about nothing at Society,
and absurd violence.

_May 31._--Finished iambics. Wrote over for tutor. Played cricket
in the Upper Club, and had tea in poet's walk [an entry repeated
this summer].

_June 26._--Wrote over theme. Read _Iphigenie_. Called up in Homer.
Sculled Hallam to Surly after 6. Went to see a cricket match after
4.