HENRY JACKSON
you have earned a name on the lips of men and a place in their hearts to which few or none in the present or the past can make pretension. And this eminence you owe not only or chiefly to the fame of your learning and the influence of your teaching, nor even to that abounding and proverbial hospitality which for many a long year has made your rooms the hearthstone of the Society, and a guest-house in Cambridge for pilgrims from the ends of the earth, but to the broad and true humanity of your nature, endearing you alike to old and young, responsive to all varieties of character or pursuit, and remote from nothing that concerns mankind."
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick was a very outstanding member of the College from 1855, when he came up as a Freshman, until his death in 1900. As an undergraduate he had a very distinguished career ; he won the Craven Scholarship for Classics (the blue riband of University scholarships) in his second year. In 1859 he was Senior Classic, first Chancellor's Medallist and 33rd Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. He was an " Apostle " 1 and President of the Union. He was elected to a Fellowship at his first try in 1859, and appointed Assistant Tutor in die same year. At first he lectured on Classics, but after a short time, at the request of the College, he lectured on Moral Sciences. In 1869 he resigned his Fellowship and Assistant Tutorship, as his religious opinions had changed since he had signed the
1 For an account of die society called the Apostles, see Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir, by Arthur Sidgwick and Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick. Mac-millan, 1906.
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