But Dr.Beck said to us: "This is Dr .-- --, gentlemen.

He is a most admiwable scholar." (This was the Doctor's pronunciation of the r.) "He has wead Cicewo through every year for nearly fifty years for the sake of settling some important questions.
He has discovered that while necesse est may be used indifferently either with the accusative and infinitive, or with ut with the subjunctive, necesse ewat can only be used before ut with the subjunctive.

I should think it well worth living for to have made that discovery." I suppose we all thought when we graduated that Dr.Beck was a man of harsh and cold nature.

But I got acquainted with him later in life and found him one of the most genial and kind-hearted of men.

He was a member of the Legislature.
He was a Free Soiler and an Abolitionist, liberally contributing to the Sanitary Commission, and to all agencies for the benefit of the soldiers and the successful prosecution of the war.
He came vigorously to the support of Horace Mann in his famous controversy with Mr.Webster.