Tom Brown at Oxford

This is the sequel to Hughes more successful novel Tom Brown's School Days which told about Tom at the Rugby School from the age of 11 to 16. Now Tom is at Oxford University for a three year program of study, in which he attends class lectures and does independent reading with a tutor. A student in residence at Oxford is said to be up or have come up and one who leaves is said to have gone down. The author weaves a picture of life at Oxford University in the 1840s, where he himself was at that time, at Oriel College, where he excelled in sports rather than academics.