Stephen's poem "The Old School List" from "Quo Musa Tendis" is included in the front pages of H. E. C. Stapleton's "Eton School Lists 1853-1892", and the author refers to him in the preface as 'an Etonian of great promise, who died only too early for his numerous friends'. During his time at Eton, Stephen was a friend of Harry Goodhart (1858–1895), who became an England international footballer and later a Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Goodhart is referred to as "one of them's wed" in the last verse of "The Old School List":