The bringing together of these two sets of brains for graduate study would constitute the new university.

A few rooms in the nearest dwelling house would suffice for headquarters.

Dr.Gilman's scheme was approved; he became President on these terms; he gathered his faculty not only in the United States but in England, and he collected his first body of students, especially his first twenty fellows, with the same minute care.
It seems almost a miracle that an inexperienced youth in a little Methodist college in Virginia should have been chosen as one of these first twenty fellows, and it is a sufficient tribute to the impression that Page must have made upon all who met him that he should have won this great academic distinction.

He was only twenty-one at the time--the youngest of a group nearly every member of which became distinguished in after life.

He won a Fellowship in Greek.