 | 1909 - 1034 pages
...us knew what John Marvel was; for even I, who, except Wolffert, came to know him best, did not know until many years later what a nugget of unwrought...the advice of his father, and for a singular reason : that he thought it the most liberal institution of learning in the country! Little he knew of the... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Reconstruction - 1912 - 598 pages
...aspired to be a leader. My first episode at college brought me some eclat. n THE JEW AND THE CHRISTIAN I arrived rather late and the term had already begun,...most liberal institution of learning in the country 1 Little he knew of the narrowness of youth 1 His mind was so receptive that all that passed through... | |
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Why should he be able to make easily a demonstration at the blackboard that the cleverest of us only bungled through ? One day, however, we learned that the Jew had a room-mate. Bets were freely taken that he would not stick, but he stuck — for it was... 