This is not to say that he was a poor pupil, merely a mediocre one, but by his final year at school he was beginning to excel and in 1881 he won a scholarship to study at St John's College Cambridge.
Ito ay hindi na sinasabi na siya ay isang mahinang mag-aaral, at wala na ang isang pangkaraniwan isa, ngunit sa pamamagitan ng kanyang huling taon sa paaralan siya ay nagsisimula sa excel at sa 1881 siya won a scholarship sa pag-aaral sa St John's College Cambridge.