seven o'clock
`` I must go to the Dean , '' he said . `` It 's close on the half-hour . '' -LRB- III -RRB- The Reverend James Mackintosh was an excellent official of his college , and performed his duties with care and punctilium . He rose about half-past seven o'clock every morning , drank a cup of tea and went to chapel . After chapel he breakfasted , on Tuesdays and Thursdays with two undergraduates in their first year , selected in alphabetical order , seated at his table ; on the other days of the week in solitude . At ten o'clock he lectured , usually on one of St. Paul 's Epistles , on which subjects he possessed note-books filled with every conceivable piece of information that could be gathered together -- grammatical , philological , topographical , industrial , social , biographical -- with a few remarks on the fauna , flora , imports , characteristics and geological features of those countries to which those epistles were written , and in which they were composed . These notes , guaranteed to guide any student who really mastered them to success , and even distinction , in his examinations , were the result of a lifetime of loving labor , and some day , no doubt , will be issued in the neat blue covers of the `` Cambridge Bible for Schools . ''