He dwelt without a companion in the lofty domain of the higher mathematics.
A privacy of glorious light is thine.
He was afterward the head of the Coast Survey.

He had little respect for pupils who had not a genius for mathematics, and paid little attention to them.

He got out an edition of Peirce's Algebra while I was in college.

He distributed the sheets among the students and would accept, instead of a successful recitation, the discovery of a misprint on its pages.

The boys generally sadly neglected his department, which was made elective, I think, after the sophomore year.
At the examinations, which were held by committees appointed by the Board of Overseers, he always gave to the pupil the same problem that had been given to him in the last preceding recitation.