They have their shortcomings.
But they are surely entitled to the common privilege of Englishmen
--to be judged by their peers." He was speaking one day of
some rulers who had tried to check the rising tide of some
reform by persecuting its leaders. "Fools!" said the Doctor.
"They thought if they could but wring the neck of the crowing
cock it would never be day."
One of the delightful characters and humorists connected
with Harvard was Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, tutor
in Greek. He was a native of Thessaly, born near Mount Pelion
and educated in the convent of the Greek Church on Mount Sinai.
It is said, although such instances are rare, that he was
of the purest Greek blood. At any rate, his face and head
were of the Greek type. He was a man of wonderful learning,
--I dare say the best Greek scholar of his generation, whether
in Europe or America. He was a very simple-hearted person
in dealing with ordinary affairs. But his conversation and
his instruction in the class-room were full of wit and sense.
He used to tell a story, whether of his father or his grandfather
I am not sure, that one night very late he was sitting in
his warehouse alone when two men entered and told him they
were come to kill him.
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