It was like hearing a sweet and soft music to hear him read his beloved poets, and he had a singular gift of getting hold of the most sweet and mellifluous English words for his rendering.
"And he did open his mouth, and from it there did come out words sweeter than honey." He once translated to us a passage in the Inferno where the damned are suspended, head downwards, with the burning flames resting upon the soles of their feet.
"Ah," exclaimed Bachi, "they do curl up their toes." My class is not one of the very famous classes of the College.
Certainly it does not equal the class of 1802 or the class of 1829.

But I think it was, on the whole, very considerably above the average.

In it were several persons who became eminent scholars and teachers, and some who have been eminent in other walks of life.

I think, on the whole, its two most distinguished members, entitled to hold a greater place than any others in the memory of future generations, were Dr.Calvin Ellis, Dean of the Medical Faculty of Harvard, who died in 1883, and Judge Nathan Webb, of the United States District Court of Maine, who died in 1902.

Neither of these had very high rank in the class.