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his papers, but so retiring was he in his disposition and habits, and so 

 modest in his intercourse with the world, that no little difficulty was 

 experienced in hunting up these honors, for which he seems to have 

 cared very little. 



"As a lecturer," says one who intimately knew him as a friend and 

 colleague — Professor Henry Miller, of Louisville, — " his style was 

 chaste, concise, and classical, and his manner always grave and digni- 

 fied. His lectures were always carefully written, and read with a good 

 voice and correct emphasis. He never made the least attempt at dis- 

 play, nor set a clap trap in all his life." His courteous deportment 

 made him a favorite alike with his pupils and his colleagues, the latter 

 of whom he served for a number of years, both at Lexington and 

 Louisville, as Dean, an office of no little importance in a medical 

 school. He hated controversy, and never engaged in any of the 

 medical quarrels at one time so rife at these two places. 



In stature Dr. Short was of medium height, well proportioned, with 

 light hair and complexion, blue eyes, and an ample forehead. His 

 features, when lighted up by a smile, were radiant with goodness and 

 beneficence. In his manner he was graceful, calm, and dignified ; 

 so much so that one coming into his presence for the first time, might 

 have supposed him to be haughty and ascetic ; such, however, was 

 not the case. A kinder heart never vibrated in a human breast. 

 Naturally mild and amiable, he had all of a woman's gentleness, with 

 a mind of inflexible firmness upon all questions of duty. Of a sen- 

 sitive, diffident disposition, he rather shunned than courted society, 

 and never appeared to greater advantage than in the bosom of his own 

 family, or in the midst of a few select friends. As he advanced in 

 life, he grew more serious, but never was morose or even cynical. 

 The sanctity of his heart was never invaded by such a feeling. He 

 had studied God and man too closely ; had enjoyed too great a degree 

 of happiness and prosperity to cherish such a sentiment, or to exhibit 

 such a trait in his intercourse with the world. I have the testimony 

 of one who knew him well and intimately that he never saw any per- 

 son who enjoyed more heartily an agreeable anecdote, or an innocent 

 and amusing story. All his impulses, in fact, were of the noblest and 

 most generous nature. The poor never knocked at the door of his heart 

 without a prompt response. His moral character was untarnished. 

 No one ever dared to impugn his motives, or to call in question the 

 purity of his acts. As has been well observed by one of his scientific 

 friends, he had an uncompromising sense of justice, and a keen hatred 

 of everything mean and unworthy. He was a model man ; a model 

 philosopher; a model Christian. As a husband and father, his 



