Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . olly left out. He supplied its lack withurbanity, patience, geniality. The maxim we are all re-duced at last to accept,— Man kannsich seine Jungen nicht zu dumm denken,—if he ever did acknowl-edge its validity, hesurely never actedupon it. He never hurta fellows the smart modernpedagogy, acrid, mor-dant, critical, exacting,he had nothing. Menof his consideratetype, of his goodness,of his simplicity, shouldnever cease to exist incollege faculties. Most of all I lovedProfessor Dunn,though he made mecommi
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . olly left out. He supplied its lack withurbanity, patience, geniality. The maxim we are all re-duced at last to accept,— Man kannsich seine Jungen nicht zu dumm denken,—if he ever did acknowl-edge its validity, hesurely never actedupon it. He never hurta fellows the smart modernpedagogy, acrid, mor-dant, critical, exacting,he had nothing. Menof his consideratetype, of his goodness,of his simplicity, shouldnever cease to exist incollege faculties. Most of all I lovedProfessor Dunn,though he made mecommit to memoryCampbells andWhatelys my intercourse with Dunn I feel I am somewhat dif-ferent from what I should have been without that in-fluence. He gave me suggestions, promptings; he wasaffable, kindly, cultivated in manner, easy and fluent ofspeech, a genuine example of good rhetoric, himself morepotent as a lesson than the books we repeated to himverbatim. Next I put Gammell. In Gammells classes also wecommitted things to memory. Here it was Hallam and. Professor Alexis Caswell,(Taken about 1857) 1822 Memories of Brown 123 Guizot. But Gammell was a great talker, and was venture-some. It was his business to ruffle the waters rather thanto spread oil upon them. We asked him questions. Inthe interchange of speech many dormant ideas wereawakened. I came to feel a certain stimulus from Gam- mells discoursive com-menting, and camefrom his classes stirredand thinking. Chace was still teach-ing the doctrine of thethree imponderableforms of matter, lectur-ing slowly enough forme to take it all Chace I felt a warmattachment. He oncewrote an article on thePersistence of PhysicalLaw, and was reputedto have thereby hurthis prospects. This, ofcourse, belonged to theesoteric concerns of thecorporation, but itwas talked about in thecommunity, and was an influence determining the way ofthinking of the student body. Lincoln made the impression of perfect competency as
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