Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — Same Old Lectures. [ARTICLE]

Same Old Lectures.

On a certain occasion Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia university, speaking jokingly of his age, < said he trusted that he was not so old that the students could- play on him the trick he once saw tried on a senior professor In his own college days. _____ ” “Professor Blank,” he said, “was our most venerable Instructor, and he could be just a little Irritable at times. Once, noticing that a member of hla class who' sat right under his eye never took any notes or paid the slightest attention to his - lectures, he stopped abruptly and demanded: “ ‘See here, young man, what do yon mean by coming into my classroom day after day and never taking notes?* "T have my father’s,’ was the student’s complacent reply.’!—-Youth’s Companion.