The Henson Journals

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Thursday, February 3rd, 1927.

"Mendacity and insincerity – in these I found the effects – the sure and only sure effects of an English university education." – Jeremy Bentham

Bentham was at Oxford from 1760 to 1763. He boggled over signing the 39 Articles, & evidently hated the place.

I worked at the Lecture all the morning. Dick came to lunch, and shewed me the plans for the new church at Annefield Plain. This is his birthday: he is 32 years old today.

I walked round the Park with old Dr McCullagh. Two lads, aspirants for Ordination, came to see me, Needham and Kent. The first was a bricklayer's son, & the last a clerk's. And yet people continue to speak of the Anglican clergy as forming a "class ministry". Both these lads pleased me: they seemed very manly fellows.

Kenneth Hodgson came to see me. He finds difficulty in getting into Oxford. I don't think he realizes at all the probable cost of residence there. Nevertheless, I wrote to the Warden of Wadham, commending his application.

Dr McCullagh, the Bishop of Gloucester, Miss Headlam, Mrs Hedley & her daughter came to dinner. Headlam looks very fit. He is evidently happy in the Bishop's life.

The weather was mainly fine all day, but at eventide the wind began to rise, & at nightfall it was blowing a gale.

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