human
Too 'ollandy by 'alf.
gpt
A new and strong effort for moral purity in Oxford can be dated from Holland's Proctorship.
human
of Eldonian Toryism, but soon exchanged it for Gladstonian Liberalism, and this, again, he suffused with an energetic spirit of State Socialism on which Mr. Gladstone would have poured his sternest wrath. A friend writes:
gpt
I don't remember that H. S. H., when he was an undergraduate, took much interest in politics more than chaffing others for being so Tory. (He never spoke at the Union, and had probably not realized his powers as a speaker.)
human
But when, in 1872, I went to be curate to Oakley (afterwards Dean of Manchester) at St. Saviour's, Hoxton, Holland used to come and see me there, and I found him greatly attracted to social life in the East End of London. In 1875 he came, with Edward Talbot and Robert Moberly, and lodged in Hoxton, and went about among the people, and preached in the church. I have sometimes thought that this may have been the beginning of the Oxford House.