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boots. For several days after he was seen to pick his way care- 

 fully on the gravelled walks. In regard to his next-door neigh- 

 bor, whom he admired very much, although it was seldom they 

 agreed, he used laughingly to say : " Now Eliot is too much like 

 George Washington for us ever to be able to keep step long 

 together." Speaking of his other colleagues, many of whom he 

 loved dearly, he would often make use of the phrase "He's 

 a dear boy/' or "He's the dearest creature alive. " This ex- 

 pression was oftenest on his lips with reference to Dr. James, 

 Professor Palmer, and Professor Royce; and in his lifetime 

 Professor Child would call forth the same spontaneous words of 

 liking. Like himself, Professor Child was of a testy nature and 

 they often disputed acrimoniously in faculty-meetings, but they 

 would no sooner get home than a note would fly from one to the 

 other full of contrition and tender atonement. So far as his 

 relations with the men in his own department were concerned, 

 they were cordial, liberal, and encouraging. Professors Davis, 

 Smyth, Wolff, Woodworth, and others had been his old pupils 

 and were endeared to him by long association. He was also 

 most considerate of the clerks in his office, and almost without 

 exception they adored him. 



Mr. Shaler was a very constant friend ; for, after all, his im- 

 patience was rooted in patience, and he would put up with 

 the backslidings and misdemeanors of a person with whom he 

 had once had friendly relations beyond the usual endurance. 

 It was rare that anything could happen bad enough to shake 

 his loyalty to a tie once formed, and an appeal, however exact- 

 ing, was seldom unheeded. On one occasion when the discov- 

 ery that a German woman, who for years had been befriended 

 on account of her extreme poverty, had stored in bank six 

 hundred dollars which, she said, she was saving to pay her 

 son's gambling debts in case he had any, awakened indigna- 

 tion, he merely remarked, "What did you expect? Besides, 

 when you undertook to help her you should have realized 

 that it was for better or for worse." The friend who was so 



