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Brains. The brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains...
SYLVESTER SCOVEL
"But that's not a rhyme!" roared Sylvester.
Ben Jonson was another Elizabethan who ate at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, as it was then called. Once a dispute arose as to who could most quickly make the best couplet. Poet Joshua Sylvester took up the challenge and penned:
I, Sylvester,