He has discovered that while necesse est may be used indifferently
either with the accusative and infinitive, or with ut with
the subjunctive, necesse ewat can only be used before ut with
the subjunctive. I should think it well worth living for
to have made that discovery."
I suppose we all thought when we graduated that Dr. Beck
was a man of harsh and cold nature. But I got acquainted
with him later in life and found him one of the most genial
and kind-hearted of men. He was a member of the Legislature.
He was a Free Soiler and an Abolitionist, liberally contributing
to the Sanitary Commission, and to all agencies for the benefit
of the soldiers and the successful prosecution of the war.
He came vigorously to the support of Horace Mann in his famous
controversy with Mr. Webster. Mann had vigorously attacked
Webster, and Webster in return had spoken of Mann as one of
that class of persons known among the Romans as Captatores
Verborum, which he supposed to mean one of those nice persons
who catch up other person's words for the sake of small criticism
and fault-finding.
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