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CHAPTER X. 



TAKES HIS DOCTOR'S DEGREE IN HOLLAND. 



Enter ALMA MATER as a Hag. 

 ' Powers ! ' she cried, with hoarse devotion, 

 ' Give my son the clearest notion 

 How to compass sure promotion 

 And take care of Number One. 



' Let his college course be pleasant, 

 Let him ever, as at present, 

 Seem to have read what he hasn't, 

 And to do what can't be done. 



Of the philosophic spirit 

 Richly may my son inherit ; 

 As for Poetry, inter it 



With the myths of other days. 



' Cut the thing entirely, lest yon 

 College Don should put the question, 

 Why not stick to what you're best on ? 

 Mathematics always pays.' 



JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. 



THE tree of all others that our botanist had now to 

 study was the money-tree how to make that bear, or 

 'rather how to sow his 600 copper dollars (about 15Z. 

 English, according to Smith) so as to yield the best 

 return. 



Linnaeus left Falun in April 1735, some say in 

 company with Claudius, or Claes, Sohlberg, one of his 



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