Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . Memories of Brown 17 The Faculty in the Fifties A T the time of matriculation Dr. Wayland used toL\ sit in his office looking much like a hon in his den.^ -^ Ushered into his presence, the trembling fresh-man was ready to obey unquestioningly his slight-est behest. So when the matriculation register was placed before the youngfellow, and the presi-dent, looking out fromunder his shaggy brow,bade him sign it, hethought of nothing butinstantaneous acquies-cence. Then came thecatastrophe, the o 1 dlion thundering out, St
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . Memories of Brown 17 The Faculty in the Fifties A T the time of matriculation Dr. Wayland used toL\ sit in his office looking much like a hon in his den.^ -^ Ushered into his presence, the trembling fresh-man was ready to obey unquestioningly his slight-est behest. So when the matriculation register was placed before the youngfellow, and the presi-dent, looking out fromunder his shaggy brow,bade him sign it, hethought of nothing butinstantaneous acquies-cence. Then came thecatastrophe, the o 1 dlion thundering out, Stop, sir. Read whatyou are going to do you know thatit is not a note ofhand? A MUCH honored pro-fessor, then a veryyoung man, had latelyreturned from a resi-dence of a year or two. Professor Samuel S. Greene, 1837(Taken about 1857) at Athens, and was in the habit of discoursing most edify-ingly upon the results of his observations in the ancient 18 Memories of Brown land surrounding the little capital. It was one of the wellrecognized resorts of the mischievous boys of his class,when they preceived that a call to recite might lead to aparticularly disastrous display of their delinquencies, toinquire the result of his researches into the peculiarities of the Greek mind,assured that the bellbefore the next recita-tion hour would strikebefore their thirst forinformation had beenfully gratified. Two professors wereaccustomed to illustratetheir lectures by ex-periments of a more orless sensational char-acter. Of these, onewas apt to announce, Now gentlemen, youwill see such and suchsurprising phenom-ena, half the time Professor Robinson P. Dunn, 1843 blank disappointment (Taken about 1857) r n • t^i ,i lollowmg. 1 he otherwas wont, almost as uniformly, to preface t
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