desired, such, however, as in the end makes a man if there be manhood, and the scholar if there be mentality. All children cannot be handled alike in their parental training, so likewise in a slightly later period various methods of education might bring to one and another greater good, but the University system-pitch in Tucker and go it alone-prevailed, and in spite of demanding a large consumption of time and energy served to acquaint one early with life's serious obstacles and the necessity of being at all times self-resourceful.

CHAPTER XXIII

PROFESSORS-PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TRAITS

Leopold Jules Boeck-nativity, personality; great linguist; resignation. Stephen O. Southall-characteristics, fine speaker; popular with students. John Randolph Page-characteristics; course unpopular; resignation. Thomas Randolph Price, successor to Professor Gildersleeve; characteristics; home quite a social factor. William Wertenbaker, Librarian; youth, training; appointed by Mr. Jefferson. M. Green Peyton, Proctor-personality, good official, friendly to all students. Henry Martin, Janitor-personal traits, affable, dignified but friendly.

THERE were four professors-Boeck, Southall, Page, Price -with whom my student course required no direct contact, yet who were seen almost daily in one place or another, occasionally to enjoy a few words in conversation.

LEOPOLD JULES BOECK-This gentleman was elected professor of "Applied Mathematics and Civil Engineering" in 1867, a new department created in the University the previous year. He was born at Culm, Poland, in 1823, being a distinguished Hungarian patriot, possessing beyond a mastery of his teaching subjects a superior knowledge of many languages. After graduating from the University of Bonn he entered the University of Berlin where he received the Doctor of Philosophy degree. With the zeal of early manhood he championed the side of the nobility in the Polish revolution of 1849, which being unsuccessful caused him to seek refuge in Hungary, then also struggling for independence. Here again he espoused a defeated cause, which otherwise would have promoted him to the Secretary of State under General Kossuth, but in reality occasioned his appointment as Envoy Extraordinary to Turkey in the hope of securing aid. This he was not only refused, but there imprisoned and sent to Paris, where, becoming an intimate friend of Victor Hugo, he advocated strongly his accession to the French throne rather than the restoration of Louis Napoleon-that for which he was ordered to leave the country, a dire necessity that

prompted his coming to the United States. He was just fifty when I entered the university, but, like most of the professors, seemed older to us youthful students than we thought those years should indicate; weighed about one hundred and eighty pounds and stood six feet high. His shoulders were square and broad but bent slightly forward; hips and chest full and large; face roundish and of good size; forehead broad and high; hair abundant, blackish and combed loosely backward without much of a part; chin-whiskers and moustache blackish with some whitish strands; nose full-size and well-proportioned. He spoke quickly in rather a high pitched voice with a decided foreign accent, and in conversation was animated -indeed, at times demonstrative-using many gestures and facial expressions. He moved with rapid step, appearing always in a hurry, and his whole make-up indicated the impulsive nervous type-easily irritated but soon pacified. In the eyes of the student-body he was the conversational linguist of the Faculty-speaking at least six or eight languages—and therefore was supposed by us to be an almost indispensable factor. But with his own students he stood in less favor, as they failed to appreciate his ultra frank and familiar manner, his volatile and impetuous disposition. It is true they regarded him as a man of great learning, in and out of his department, yet they appreciated the fact that he fell short of being the useful and practical teacher needed—that typified so thoroughly the other professors. He was wanting in dignity and that strong manly personality often very inspiring to youth-such as stimulates emulation and best efforts. At times he was exacting and positive, then again lenient and conciliatory, but in spite of idiosyncrasies and short-comings from the students' viewpoint, those that were serious could profit greatly under his tutelage-only the laggard and indifferent need suffer.

He was recognized to be a hard worker, seldom wasting time or opportunity-even utilizing the Sabbath otherwise than in attending sacred service at church or chapel. His reply to Dr. John Staige Davis when approached—possibly reproached-for devoting the Holy Day in secular duties was handed along from year to year to no little mortification as well as amusement of the students: "You know Doctor, the