text:  It was after we had separated that a friend of mine not an Oxford man who had dined with us and appeared much amused by some of Horace's reminiscences asked me the very puzzling question "Was your friend Leicester what they call a 'rowing man' at College?" Now I protest altogether against the division of under-graduates into reading men and rowing men as arbitrary and most illogical; there being a great many who have no claim to be reckoned either in one class or the other and a great many who hover between both