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Universal Language -- Purchase Lacroix's Quarto Work on the Integral Calculus -- Disappointment on getting no explanation of my Mathematical Difficulties -- Origin of the Analytical Society -- The Ghost Club -- Chess -- Sixpenny Whist and Guinea Whist -- Boating -- Chemistry -- Elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1828.
My father, with a view of acquiring some information which might be of use to me at Cambridge, had consulted a tutor of one of the colleges, who was passing his long vacation at the neighbouring watering-place, Teignmouth. He dined with us frequently. The advice of the Rev. Doctor was quite sound, but very limited. It might be summed up in one short sentence: "Advise your son not to purchase his wine in Cambridge."