Augustus Charles Bernays

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III INFLUENCES AT LEBANON Had I read as much as others, I might have been as ignorant.? Hobbes. In order to get into my pen picture a shading of a man's view of the character of my brother in early youth, I asked one of his classmates and comrades of those days, Mr. W. A. Kelsoe, whose faithful...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III INFLUENCES AT LEBANON Had I read as much as others, I might have been as ignorant.? Hobbes. In order to get into my pen picture a shading of a man's view of the character of my brother in early youth, I asked one of his classmates and comrades of those days, Mr. W. A. Kelsoe, whose faithful memory is a byword in St. Louis journalism, to supplement my story by a letter reminiscent of their mutual relations and the life and spirit of the little Methodist College. Mr. Kelsoe's letter follows in part: Your brother and I entered the preparatory department of McKendree College the same week, if not the same day, in September, 1866, and graduated together in June, 1872. I boarded for five years within a stone's throw of his home, and met him almost daily in the class-room, on the college grounds, and in the streets of Lebanon. For a year and more he was, I think, the youngest and smallest of the students, but was even then regarded by his associates and teachers as one of the brightest boys in the preparatory department . He attracted a great deal of attention by his inquisitiveness, and was always asking questions, seeking more knowledge, never satisfied with what he obtained. He did not seem to care for high marks or a good record in his recitations, but his classmates knew that young Bernays was really better informed than they on most of the subjects studied. This was particularly true of the Greek and Latin languages, and of chemistry, botany, zoology, physiology, and physics. August seldom missed a recitation, except during a few weeks in the fall of 187o, when he was laid up with a broken leg. He spent considerable time in the college gymnasium, and took part in some of the public exhibitions given there. He was fond of outdoor sports, and joined the fir...