Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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he did was marked by classic perfection. He had keen insight and a fatal com- mand of sarcasm. From XVelcker's lectures on Greek art, the world of classic beauty rose like an exhalation, perhaps rather too much like an exhalation. Still, it was a golden mist. Of Ritschl, I have elsewhere written at length, and I will not repeat here my characteristics of the great scholar and the great teacher. There was not much danger lest the vivacity of his manner should find too many imitators among his own countrymen. Tradition was too strong for that. But it seemed almost impossible that any one could have studied under Ritschl without catching something of his fire, something of his spirit. And this hre, this spirit, is what is most needed. If I may adapt a verse of Aristo- phanes, the cry of the impatient student to his teacher is ' You dreadful bore, don't lecture me, but give me wingsfwf These are some of the individuals, some of the types, that come back to me out of the distant past. The memory of these men makes me young again, and in a measure qualifies me for my part in the Hopkinsianf' But professors and students alike-fuzfzfis rf 1111111111 511111111 and more particularly professors who are often dust before they are shadows. Sometime ago, there was discovered in the library of the University of Kiel, a tablet, with waxen efligies of more than a score of the glories of the faculty, dating from the close of the last century. The faces were not uninteresting, some of them unusually intellectual in their cast, some ofa subtle and penetrating expression. They were all magnates in their day. One of them actually gave his name to a street in the town of Kiel. But who knows, who really knows, what any one of them did? And the only two figures on the tablet, whose names are at all familiar to the general student, have been put in to make the rows even. But Nature is careful of the type and the Kiel professors have doubtless each had his reincarnation, as we shall have ours, and in the remote ages some professor will renew, for the benefit of another l-Iopkinsianf' his recollections of professorial types. BASIL I.. GII,DERSl-EEYE. 'W 1:1 llfllIll4lI'lI, pn 1'111't917'H Ill., IIQQII rT.1,1u1'. 'A Wines. my good fn-llow. grive me wings, not wo1'ds. - Fm-:nl-:. 18K

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above the surtout along an unreasonable length of throttle, and the whole crowned hy an immense collar-immense on Sunday, but gradually hauled in day by day until its successor rose to greet the next I.ord's day with its vast expanse. In my happy year at Gottingen, I had the good fortune to be brought into close relations with one of my professors, Schneidewin, and I have not the heart, even at this distance of time, to classify one who was a personal friend, though perhaps none of my professors was more typically German than he. He was a man ofprodigious memory and knew his Homer and his Sophocles by heart, and impressed us by the subtlety of his acquaintance with the Greek tongue. He was not an eloquent man, and his way of treating his manuscript was something like that of the late Mr. Matthew Arnoldg only, after consulting his notes, he would face the window and not the audience. Karl Friedrich Hermann, the most eminent of the classical philologians at Gottingen, was not an eloquent man either, though he was professor of elo- quence, and it seemed perfectly natural that he should hump himself over his reading desk, hury his big face in his manuscript, and spout forth his long sentences with immense force and with perpetual gyrations of one of his fat hands. There was no love lost between Hermann and Schneidewin -though, I believe, Hermann behaved magnanimously when he was called to Gottingen- and I was somewhat of a partisan and believed in Schneidewing but no one, however prejudiced, could fail to recognize Hermann's wide learning and broad vision, no one could fail to be borne on by the turbulent flow of his discourse. Ritter, the historian of philosophy, read so closely that it almost amounted to dictation. His was the text-book type of lecture and he the text-book type of professor, a type that has its uses, and it is well, for it is a type that will never die. Time would fail me to tell of Yon Leutsch, the most diverting of all the academical oddities I have ever known. He was the type of the professor on whom all the professorial stories are fathered, another undying type. At Bonn, my chief masters were XVelcker, Ritschl and Bernays. Ilernays was then a young man. Young as he was, he had already marked out the lines by which he was to attain to what is in some respects a unique position, and I doubt very much whether, asa teacher, he ever advanced beyond what he was then. As a scholar, he never achieved any work of great bulk, hut what 17

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