Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . of essays for the junior exhibition and the com-mencement exercises, we had no personal conferenceswith the professor for suggestion and criticism. But wetook down from dictation lectures on the many qualifi-cations which conspire to make a good writer, studiedCampbells Philosophy of Rhetoric and Thomsons Lawsof Thought, and wrote essays and original speeches atfrequent intervals and received them back with unmis-takable evidence that they had been attentively read by acompetent critic. I find that to this day, in giv
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . of essays for the junior exhibition and the com-mencement exercises, we had no personal conferenceswith the professor for suggestion and criticism. But wetook down from dictation lectures on the many qualifi-cations which conspire to make a good writer, studiedCampbells Philosophy of Rhetoric and Thomsons Lawsof Thought, and wrote essays and original speeches atfrequent intervals and received them back with unmis-takable evidence that they had been attentively read by acompetent critic. I find that to this day, in giving formalwritten expression to my thought, I frame and reconstructwith constant and almost automatic reference to the in-structions I received in my college days from ProfessorDunn. 228 Mi em ones o/B rown So far as I can now recall, I did not study history incollege until I reached senior year. Then ProfessorGammell assigned us eight pages a day in Guizots His-tory of Civilization, or an equivalent amount in HallamsConstitutional History, and supplemented our memoriter.
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