The men of those generations have left their work behind them.

It does not suffer in comparison with that of their successors.

There was something in the college training of that day, imperfect as were its instruments, and slender as were its resources, from which more intellectual strength in the pupil was begotten than there is in the college training of the present generation.

I will not undertake to account for it.

But I think it was due in large part to the personality of the instructors.