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me where I was weak. He tauglit me, as no one ever had before, 

 what was true economy in teaching and intellectual effort. I grew 

 to appreciate and love the man who gave the best powers of an 

 unusually strong and disciplined mind to correcting the intellectual 

 processes of a green lad. He taujiht with his whole body and soul, 

 and, even in these latter days, while occupying a lecture-room near 

 his, I have heard him for two hours at a stretch arguing with those 

 who, convinced, could argue still, turning the subject about with 

 masterly skill so that no one should leave his presence with a muddy 

 brain. There was something pathetic in the tones of that voice, not 

 cushioned by any indolent tutor's ease. There was no space between 

 that voice and the heart. The whole man spoke with it. That voice 

 has literally been worn out in the service of the University for more 

 than a quarter of a century ; yet the man was not old. AYhile other 

 men achieved popular reputations with, in many cases, a mininuim 

 attention to college classes, Professor Eustis gave always his best to 

 those who attended his recitations. His work, silent and unobserved 

 by the world at large, has borne great fruit ; for there are hundreds 

 in America occupying prominent positions, trained by him, who will 

 rise up and call him blessed." 



" The late Professor Eustis, was a man whose excellence as an 

 instructor deserves public acknowledgment from his pupils. The 

 quality of his teaching was exceptional. The bent of his mind and 

 the thoroughness of the old West Point discipline made him intolerant 

 of half training or superficial knowledge. The early practice of his 

 profession, and afterward constant reading of its literature, kept him 

 up to the level of its best attainment; and he had a lively contempt 

 for the makeshifts and rules of thumb by which many professional 

 men and some instructors try to handle the results of knowledge 

 without the understanding of it. At the same time he could do 

 justice to that native instinct for construction which he called gump- 

 tion, and which in rare instances — much rarer, probably, than is 

 believed — proves a safe bridge for minds for which formula) have 

 no meaning. His most characteristic qualities were his rare clear- 

 ness and directness of mind. These, with his freshness and power 

 of presentation, made his teaching luminous, filling any but a very 

 laggard pupil with interest in his subject, and making the way plain. 

 It was a maxim with liim that dear thought made clear speech ; he 

 would not admit that any one who had a distinct idea should be unable 

 to find distinct expression for it. There could be no better enforce- 

 ment of this doctrine than the lucidity of his own explanations. He 



