Mr.Choate expressed a grave doubt whether the professor could dine comfortably without a blackboard.
John W.Webster gave lectures to the boys on chemistry and geology which they were compelled to attend.

I think the latter the most tedious human compositions to which I ever listened.

The doctor seemed a kind-hearted, fussy person.
He was known to the students by the sobriquet of Sky-rocket Jack, owing to his great interest in having some fireworks at the illumination when President Everett was inaugurated.
There was no person among the Faculty at Cambridge who seemed less likely to commit such a bloody and cruel crime as that for which he was executed.

The only thing that I know which indicated insensibility was that when he was lecturing one day in chemistry he told us that in performing the experiment which he was then showing us a year or two before with some highly explosive gas a copper vessel had burst and a part of it had been thrown with great violence into the back of the bench where a row of students were sitting, but fortunately the student who sat in that place was absent that day and nobody was hurt.

He added drily: "The President sent for me and told me I must be more careful.