I may interpolate here that when I went back to Balliol after my year as an unattached student, the only thing that the Master said, on readmitting me, was something of this kind: "The College is only taking you back, Mr. Strachey, because your history tutor says that you are likely to get a First."
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
Boyle proved that light from the wood was able to pass a vacuum and later showed that "shining fish" behaved as the "shining wood," but that a piece of white hot iron would not regain its light on readmitting air to the exhausted receiver and that the iron lost its glow under the air-pump merely because it cooled off.
"The Nature of Animal Light"
E. Newton Harvey
3. Out of the issue of readmitting the Confederate states into the Union grew a serious quarrel with President Johnson.
"A Brief History of the United States"
John Bach McMaster