Rugby, as there are at all schools; and these it was the master's
duty to watch, to prevent their bad example contaminating others.
On one occasion he said to an assistant-master: "Do you see those
two boys walking together? I never saw them together before. You
should make an especial point of observing the company they keep:
nothing so tells the changes in a boy's character."

Dr. Arnold's own example was an inspiration, as is that of every
great teacher. In his presence, young men learned to respect
themselves; and out of the root of self-respect there grew up the
manly virtues. "His very presence," says his biographer, "seemed
to create a new spring of health and vigour within them, and to
give to life an interest and elevation which remained with them
long after they had left him; and dwelt so habitually in their
thoughts as a living image, that, when death had taken him away,
the bond appeared to be still unbroken, and the sense of
separation almost lost in the still deeper sense of a life and a
Union indestructible." (3) And thus it was that Dr. Arnold
trained a host of manly and noble characters, who spread the
influence of his example in all parts of the world.

So also was it said of Dugald Stewart, that he breathed the love
of virtue into whole generations of pupils. "To me," says the
late Lord Cockburn, "his lectures were like the opening of the
heavens. I felt that I had a soul. His noble views, unfolded in
glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world... They
changed my whole nature." (4)

Character tells in all conditions of life. The man of good
character in a workshop will give the tone to his fellows, and