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Militant 3L Stnlfr President Emeritus. It was the writer ' s gocd fortune to carry some manuscript to Dr. Rolfe’s home in Cambridge, and there she had the great privilege of meeting this Xestor of Shakespearian Scholars in his own home. The writer had at- tended his lectures at College, but in the class room it is difficult to break away from the relation of instructor and pupil, especially since Dr. Rolfe’s lectures are now so few on account of his failing health. So when he welcomed her into the genial atmosphere of his library as a friend, she was indeed happily sur- prised. He made her feel at home immediately by asking about the work at College and al so by relating several humorous incidents of his own life and works. After her errand was done, he walked to the door saying, I am sorry you had the trouble of coming way out here, little realizing that she was already thanking Fate for the privilege of this visit. His unassumed humility reveals the greatness of his soul and the true simplicity of his character. Dr. Rolfe has done more perhaps than any other scholar to make the study of English Literature a part of the curriculum in all the schools and colleges of America. He is, as President Southwick says, “eighty-three years young. and his mental faculties are still intact. He continues his work preparing new lectures, revising his publications, contributing regularly t ■ many literary, and to scientific and to educational periodicals, and last but not least, refuting the cussedly remarkable statements of the Baconians. Dr. Rolfe graduated from Amherst College in 1849; received the hon- orary degree of A. M. at Harvard in 1859, and the same degree in 1865 at Amherst, where in 1887 he received the further honor of Doctor of Letters. His complete edition of Shakespeare’s works is considered one of the critical authorities on Shakespeare. He has also edited many volumes on the works of several other English poets, and he has written a Life of Shakespeare, and a guide book of travels in Europe. In 1903 he was elected President of Emerson College of Oratorv, which position he resigned in 1908 on account of failing health. But his connection is by no means severed from the College for he still lectures on the Immor- tal Bard.
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