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Latin or the Professor of Greek-that I had a witty way of
translating and of ·answering the Professor's questions which would
amuse the class and embarrass the Professor. She further stated
that the Professor became greatly annoyed, and that an experience
arose between the Professor and myself of a most interesting character.
In fact, she said she had the impression that it came very
near becoming serious.
During my Senior year, the regular Professor of Latin was in
Europe on leave of absence, and a serious, awkward young man
from a distant University had charge of our Latin class. I was
taking Latin as an optional study, and as I did not need any additional
credits in the subject in order to graduate, I made very little
preparation for the work ; but always managed to save myself from
any embarrassment by giving the translation such a character,
and answering the Professor's question in such a way as to amuse
the class and confuse the Professor. In fact, it became a· matter
of general comment in the class that when I was called on to
recite, instead of being embarrassed myself, I always managed to
embarrass the Professor. The Professor gave me a very good
grade for the first half year, but the last half he conditioned me in
Latin with the explanation that while I knew more Latin than many
he had passed, I had not done work in Latin of as high a grade
as I might have dooe, and he was not pleased with my attitude
towards him in the class. This gave me an opportunity to tell the
Professor that I did not need any credit for his course, and further
that I did not want any. This made the Professor rather indignant,
and me more sarcastic than I had been at any previous time:
J. R. Mosuv.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 20, 1898.
Although Prof. Mosley had affirmed that the psychometrist
knew nothing of his past history, the question was still open
whether Dr. du Buy or anyone else in Greenacre had been previously
acquainted with him or the facts of his life. Had this
been so, the professor would probably have mentioned it, and it
would indeed have required an intimate knowledge, such as only
relatives and close friends ordinarily possess, for anyone to have
been able to impart to Mrs. Stansell the materials for such an
astonishing array of veridical statements as those which she
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