[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER THREE: The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr 11/38
Anyone familiar with the work of colleges would not heed it, but it shocked Tomlinson to think how often the professors of the college were stricken down by overwork. Here and there in the hall, set into niches, were bronze busts of men with Roman faces and bare necks, and the edge of a toga cast over each shoulder. "Who would these be ?" asked Tomlinson, pointing at them.
"Some of the chief founders and benefactors of the faculty," answered the president, and at this the hopes of Tomlinson sank in his heart.
For he realized the class of man one had to belong to in order to be accepted as a university benefactor. "A splendid group of men, are they not ?" said the president.
"We owe them much.
This is the late Mr.Hogworth, a man of singularly large heart." Here he pointed to a bronze figure wearing a wreath of laurel and inscribed GULIEMUS HOGWORTH, LITT.DOC.
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