Dr. Jowett was a warm friend of University extension. When the question
came up at Oxford of entertaining the students during the summer, he
found the Dons very much opposed to giving up even temporarily their
quarters, claiming their vested rights even in vacation. The Master,
however, controlled the buttery, and also the chapel exercises. He
accordingly cut down the commissariat and lengthened out the prayers,
until the Dons yielded and quietly moved out. As a party of them,
portmanteaus in hand, were walking to the railway station one day, he
chuckled to a friend, "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and
fasting."