Word: 2d
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...2D SENIOR. I found it lying here. I've made out four lines of the writing on it: they are in verse. I'll warrant they are more of a puzzle than you can solve...
...2D S. Come, read this...
...2D S. But what does it all mean? The first verse plainly refers to an equal facility in the performance of duties professional and ecclesiastical, and the last implies that the "thou" referred to was the first visible embodiment of a type which had previously been dimly comprehended. It must be a satire on some Yale instructor. No doubt some Yale man wrote it and lost it on his visit here with the Nine. It's written in blue ink, - of course a Yale man wrote...
...2D S. You see nothing in it, I suppose...
...2D S. There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have...