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Before long, people began to talk. Even Cotton Mather had his share to say about the Professor: "And though his Avarice was notorious, enough to get the Name of a Philagyrius fixed upon him, yet his Cruelty was more scandalous than his Avarice. He was a Rare Scholar himself, and he made more such; but their Education truly was In the School of Tyrannus...

Author: By Harry K. Schwatz, | Title: Tombstone in the Tar | 10/16/1954 | See Source »

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