Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — Why Especially He? [ARTICLE]

Why Especially He?

At a committee meeting of the Harvard Musical Association some years ago, one of the members said that hesaw a piece of music in Ditson's window entitled “Give.My Chewing Gum to Gerty.” It was a minute or two after the laugh which followed this announcement had subsided Avhen the venerable Prof. John S. Dwight, now several years dead, looked up, and with wrinkled brow, as one struggling with a mystery, asked: “But why especially to Goethe?”—Boston Transcript.