I trust you may be equally successful in other departments.

Good afternoon, sir." And this was all from a professor whose name was known on more than one continent and who was counted one of the greatest of educators.

Such was his test of what of English literature was required in a freshman.
A lesser man than this great teacher would have taken an hour for the task and learned less, for, after all, did not the examination cover the whole ground?
The droll range of the inquiry was such that the questioner had gauged, far better than by some more ponderous and detailed system, the quality of the young man's knowledge in one field.
One of the strong teachers this, one not afraid of a departure, and one of those who, within the last quarter of a century, have laid the foundations of new American universities deep and wide, and given to the youth facilities for a learning not creed-bound, nor school-bound, but both liberal and of all utility.
It was well for the particular freshman whose examination is here described that his first experience with a professor was with such a man.

It gave confidence, and set him thinking.

With others of the examiners he did not, in each instance, fare so happily.