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Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER VII
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He said that he had rather a pity for him, as he had already been suspended once and he supposed the new offence would lead to his being expelled.

Whereupon he said, "I will give you some reason to tell of me," and proceeded to administer a sound caning.
That was at once reported to the Faculty.

The offender was expelled, and criminal proceedings had which resulted in a fine.
We had some delightful lectures from Longfellow on the literature of the Middle Ages.

He read us some of his own original poems and some beautiful translations.

All the substance of these lectures I think is to be found in his book entitled "The Poets and Poetry of the Middle Ages." I do not see that we gained anything of solid instruction by having them read to us that we could not have got as well by reading them.


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