text:  His youthful _proteges_ were glad to be able to repay in the country many kind offices at Oxford and to become patronizers in their turn; and the seniors redoubled in the case of their son's friend the hospitality and courtesy they would have readily shown to a stranger and were not eager to scrutinize the motives which might have induced him to be civil to the hopeful stripling whom in their partial view the whole university might well have delighted to honour