 Money was tight, and partly from frugality and partly from his own inclination he became a vegetarian and a teetotaller.Two years later he was finally granted a scholarship, which slightly eased his financial difficulties, but he retained his austere personal regime.Holst's professors at the RCM were Frederick Sharpe (piano), William Stephenson Hoyte (organ), George Case (trombone), Georges Jacobi (instrumentation) and the director of the college, Hubert Parry (history).