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The university stayed open, but it was only a ghost of what it had been. Trinity was depopulated, its enrollment plummeting from almost six hundred before the war to forty-seven in October 1916. === Ramanujan’s tutor, E. W. Barnes, cast a colder, more bitter light on such losses. In a sermon toward war’s end, he declared: “Of my pupils at Cambridge at least one-half, and practically all the best, have been killed or maimed for life; the work that I did [teaching mathematics over the years] has been for the most part wasted.” === Ramanujan, it need hardly be stated, did not. He had no interest in sports; if Hardy tried to interest him in cricket it didn’t take. He had always been fat, largely oblivious to his body, almost pathologically sedentary.