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Then his friends and I had to laugh, it was so like him the afternoon of the morning he arrived, he was in the thick of a scrap on the campus over a principle he held to tenaciously the abolition of the one-year modern-language requirement for students in his college. To use his own expression, he "went to the bat on it," and at a faculty meeting that afternoon it carried.
But I allow when he gets on his hobby he rides rather hard. Most of the other fellows have given up the classics they like the modern-language course with sciences better perhaps it's softer. They say not; but I know the classics are hard enough. I flunked out on my Greek exam junior year. So, you see, I'm not a very good judge. But, anyhow, wasn't the bit he read us from Juvenal simply fine?
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