Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . path through a wood, and ending as a squirrel trackrunning up a tree. Prompted by the upperclass men,the freshies used to be ready in each case for the enthusi-astic narrator, breaking out into the most uproarious ap-plause, just before he reached the point of his tale. It became the custom, at one period, for the students to 120 Mem ones ofB. rown inhale the then freshly-known nitrous-oxide or laughing-gas and watch the queer antics which resulted. Therewas a little fellow who had been much brow-beaten and put upon b
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . path through a wood, and ending as a squirrel trackrunning up a tree. Prompted by the upperclass men,the freshies used to be ready in each case for the enthusi-astic narrator, breaking out into the most uproarious ap-plause, just before he reached the point of his tale. It became the custom, at one period, for the students to 120 Mem ones ofB. rown inhale the then freshly-known nitrous-oxide or laughing-gas and watch the queer antics which resulted. Therewas a little fellow who had been much brow-beaten and put upon by one of the bigger men, a bit inclined to bea bully. The youngster evinced a great desire to breathethe strange mixture, proceeding without a moments de-lay, under the protection of his temporary irresponsibility,to give his adversary, taken entirely by surprise, thebiggest drubbing of his life. The gayety of the occasionwas not diminished when it came to be known that mis-chievous fellow students had inflated the gas bag withnothing but pure common air. Anonymous, i8^ Memories of Brown 12 More About the Faculty in the Fifties THE transition from Wayland to Sears marked agreat step in the modernizing of old first impressed me about Dr. Sears washis collection of German books and the new con-ception which he brought of scholarship. In his dailywalk and conversation he had an air of refinement thatgave evidence of a travelled mind. Being sometimes inhis house and seeing his foreign books, I felt myself insome measure kept in countenance by his example, as Iwas already reading German when I entered college, andhad enthusiasms unshared by any of my mates and evenlooked upon askance by my pastor. Of the matter of Dr. Searss teaching, I have never beenable to detect in my mental equipment a trace. It seemsto me he must have been singularly destitute of thequality we name personal magnetism. He never put meup to studying or reading anything, yet I revere his mem-ory. I
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