Memorials of Academic Life: Being An Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations With the History of the Higher Education in the South And Southwest
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M., in 1857, which he filled until the occ.u-rence of the war, when he also went North. My acquaintance with him was very sHght. I only knew he was an Enghshman, and had been teaching in Holly Springs some time. As to his accomplish- ments as a Greek scholar I had no knowledge ; but I was impressed by a little incident that occurred in my lecture- room just previous to his election. Being on a visit to Ox- ford, he called at m.y room very naturally, in order to ascer- tain my mode of instructio...n. It was my custom to teach pro- sody in all the poetical authors read by the students in both languages. As the class was pursuing the study of some one of the Greek tragedians, not now recollected, I practiced them in the scansion of the lines in the trimeter verse. At the close of the hour he volunteered the remark that "if it was expected that he would teach prosody, it must be un- derstood beforehand he would not do it." I learned after- wards that when he went North he was made Greek Profes- sor in Union College, Schenectady, N.
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