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The panels were covered with the names of Wrykynians who had won scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge, and of Old Wrykynians who had taken first in Mods or Greats, or achieved any other recognised success, such as a place in the Indian Civil Service list. A silent testimony, these panels, to the work the school had done in the world.
"I dined at the Warden's last night." Noaks sat still, peering across at the Duke. For the first time in his life, he was resentful of the Duke's great elegance and average stature, his high lineage and incomputable wealth. Hitherto, these things had been too remote for envy. But now, suddenly, they seemed near to him nearer and more overpowering than the First in Mods had ever been.
'You, an incarnate sinecure and vested interest, a creature revelling in an unearned income of fabulous Oriental magnificence I dare say, putting one thing with another, fully as much as five hundred a year to ask me, the unbeneficed and insignificant, with my wretched pittance of eighty pounds per annum and my three pass-men a term for classical mods, how I scrape together the few miserable, hoarded ha'pence which I grudgingly invest in my pots and pipkins!
It was only after I had miserably squirmed my way through Mods., as a man may squirm through some hole in a prison wall, that I had the slightest idea of what was meant by the Greek spirit.
But he ought to have known, and I should think he must have known, that at the time of his writing the mere and sheer pass-man the man whose knowledge was represented by the minimum of Smalls, Mods, and Greats was, if not actually in a minority, in some colleges at least he was that at any rate in a pretty bare majority.
She had spent a year at Somerville, though she had gone down without trying for a place in either 'Mods. or 'Greats, thereby preserving, if not increasing, her reputation for superiority.
Now he toddled a little nearer and every one made way for him with a peculiar respect, for he was the Master of Durham, whose name was great in Oxford and also in the world outside it. He looked up first at the pictured face and then at Milly Flaxman, a young cousin of Fletcher's and a scholar of Ascham Hall, who had taken her First in Mods, and was hoping to get one in Greats.
Aubrey turned a puzzled look upon him. 'What! a lady? Desmond grinned. 'First Class in Mods, and an awful swell. Father can't let her out of his sight. Says he never had anybody so good. 'And she'll end by bossing us all, put in Pamela. 'She's begun it already. Now you really must go and dress.
Don't forget you have got to work, we don't want any fourth in Mods," and then he wished me good-night, and on the next day I went home with Jack Ward, who had a most astounding lot of luggage.
In spite of the Dons, about whom I troubled singularly little, in spite of my being ploughed twice for Mods., sent down from my college, made to become an unattached student, and only reinstated at Balliol after I had got through Mods, and was guaranteed to be going to do well in the History Schools, I can say with absolute truth that I was never anything but supremely happy at Oxford I might almost say deliriously happy.
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