Sales." Sales was struck with horror. He said it was
the most horrible phrase that ever came from the lips of mortal
man, and he should think the walls of the building where they
were would fall down on Whitney's head and overwhelm him.
What awful and mysterious meaning the words "by Jingo" had
for the old Spanish gentleman we never could discover. He
declined to give any explanation and treated the subject
as one to be avoided with horror ever after. I commend the
question to the consideration of philologists.
The treatment of the students in general by the authorities
and the college was stern, austere and distant. The students
had little social intercourse with the families or the professors,
except such of them as had relatives in Cambridge, which allowed
intercourse with the families of the professors. The professors
did nothing to encourage familiarity, or even to encourage
any request for help in the difficulties of study. Indeed
a boy who did that fell into disfavor with his companions,
and was called a fish.
President Eliot in some speech, I think before the graduates
of the Latin School, speaking of his life as a boy, said
he had a great respect for his little self.
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