Word: homer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Homer and Analytics
...these extremes. But of all, the young professor is the most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle at the circus. But has he not a kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years...
HARVARD speaks for Bayard, and Yale for Ulysses. Has Yale forgotten Homer so soon...
...Homer, Terence, Cicero...