Bez ohledu na důvody, že se jeho požadovaný pokrok těžší, než by jinak bylo. Whitehead chtěla jít na Balliol College, Oxford, na studium matematiky, ale jeho učitel matematiky na Eton to nebude myslet, že on stál šanci na získání stipendia.
Whatever the reasons it made his desired progress harder than it might otherwise have been. Whitehead wanted to go to Balliol College, Oxford, to study mathematics but his mathematics teacher at Eton did not think that he stood a chance of winning a scholarship.