rooms at Balliol were on the second floor of the Corner Staircase of the Inner Quadrangle. His brother, Thomas Arnold, places him at the top of the Second Staircase, at the corner of the Second Quadrangle. "His perfect self-possession," the "Times" adds, "the sallies of his ready wit, the humorous turn he could give to every subject he handled; his gayety, exuberance, versatility, audacity, and unfailing command of words, made him one of the most popular and successful undergraduates that Oxford has ever known."
Professor Max Miiller, who remembered him as an undergraduate at Balliol, also remembered that "he was beautiful as a young man, strong and manly, full of dreams and schemes. His Olympian manners began even at Oxford; there was no harm in them; they were natural, not put on. The sound of his voice and the wave of his arm were Jovelike."
Later the author of "Old Lang Syne" wrote: "Arnold was most brilliant as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, from 1857 to 1867. He took great pains in writing and delivering his lectures . . . some of which were masterpieces." Many of the best of these lectures were published among his "Essays," and they are recommended here as being very good reading.
Arthur H. Clough was a favorite pupil of Dr.
