Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . young upon such diet rarely degenerates into a merePhilistine. In Dr. Horatio B. Hackett we had a classicalteacher of distinguished abilities and may not have known as much Latin as Gottlob Heyne,nor as much Greek as Dr. Porson, but he had quite enoughof both for our young stomachs, especially when the recita-tion was before breakfast. I used to think him a man ofthe sixteenth century. He should have been employed inthat kind of mastodonian annotation which swelled thespare remains of Velleius Pater
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . young upon such diet rarely degenerates into a merePhilistine. In Dr. Horatio B. Hackett we had a classicalteacher of distinguished abilities and may not have known as much Latin as Gottlob Heyne,nor as much Greek as Dr. Porson, but he had quite enoughof both for our young stomachs, especially when the recita-tion was before breakfast. I used to think him a man ofthe sixteenth century. He should have been employed inthat kind of mastodonian annotation which swelled thespare remains of Velleius Paterculus into a chubbyquarto of a thousand pages. Perhaps it was not altogetherour fault if we could not relish the discussion of a dis-puted reading of Livy or of Tacitus as he relished it. 64 Memories of Brown He lived for learning, but he conscientiously gave all hisgreat acquisitions to the cause of sound Christianknowledge. As he was accuracy itself, he occupied ahigh position among the American reviewers of theEnglish Bible, and I suppose he went on toiling to View of ProvidenceIndia Point district about 1837 We had another professor of the Greek and Latinlanguages in the Rev. Romeo Elton, S. T. D, It waswithout any accurate prescience of his future proportionsthat his parents gave to him the name of the elegant younglover of Verona, for he was a little, round man, of apresence by no means romantic. It is impossible now tosay by what concatenation it happened, but the irreverent Memories of Brown ^5 undergraduates of a bygone period had bestowed uponthe sesquipedahan professor the name of Bump, andthough he was exceedingly popular, he was seldom calledanything else. Whether he was a strong classical scholaror not we never could find out, for he was so absurdlygood-natured and so punctiliously polite and of such con-firmed mauvaise Jionte withal, that we did much as wepleased in his class-room. It was upon the ground-floor,and when the exercises became dull, and the
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