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MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE 1836-4o.
ingenuity." 17 On one occasion, having solved a problem that
puzzled Goodwin, Yule thus discriminated the attainments of
the three pupils : " The difference between you and me is this :
You like it and can't do it ; I don't like it and can do it. Neale
neither likes it nor can do it." Not bad criticism for a boy of
fifteen.18
On Mr. Challis being appointed Plumerian Professor at
Cambridge, in the spring of 1836, Yule had to leave him, owing
to want of room at the Observatory, and he became for a time,
a most dreary time, he said, a student at University College,
London.
By this time Yule had made up his mind that not London
and the Law, but India and the Army should be his choice, and
accordingly in Feb. 1837 he joined the East India Company's
Military College at Addiscombe. From Addiscombe he passed
out, in December 1838, at the head of the cadets of his term
(taking the prize sword 19), and having been duly appointed to
the Bengal Engineers, proceeded early in 1839 to the Head-
quarters of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, where, according
to custom, he was enrolled as a " local and temporary Ensign."
For such was then the invidious designation at Chatham of the
young Engineer officers of the Indian army, who ranked as full
lieutenants in their own Service, from the time of leaving
Addiscombe.20 Yule once audaciously tackled the formidable
Pasley on this very grievance. The venerable Director, after a
minute's pondering, replied : " Well, I don't remember what the
reason was, but I have no doubt (staccato) it ... was ... a
very . . . good reason." 21
" When Yule appeared among us at Chatham in 1839," said
his friend Collinson, " he at once took a prominent place in our
little Society by his slightly advanced age [he was then i 8~],
but more by his strong character. . . . His earlier education . . .
gave him a better classical knowledge than most of us possessed ;
17 18 Biog. Sketch of Yule, by C. Trotter, Proceedin s, R.S.E. vol. xvii.
19 After leaving the army, Yule always used this sword when wearing uniform.
20 The Engineer cadets remained at Addiscombe a term (-6 months) longer than the Artillery cadets, and as the latter were ordinarily gazetted full lieutenants six months after passing out, unfair seniority was obviated by the Engineers receiving the same rank on passing out of Addiscombe.
21 Yule, in Memoir of General Becher.
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