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Perhaps some of us in the recollection of this important era may be led to make Philip Henry’s confession; and would that it might be made with equal sincerity and tenderness of spirit! ‘What must be done in college exercise, for arguing every day in Term time, for themes and verses one a week, and for declamations—when it came to my turn, I did as others of my standing, and sometimes received praise for it. But as for that which we call hard study, giving myself to reading, late and early, and digesting what I read by daily serious reviews, I was too much a stranger to it.’