A Great Record.
The late William Young Sellar, whoso books on the Latin poets are bo widely known and so much valued, was professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was much beloved by his pupils ' and had generally an exemplary patienco with dullness and stupidity. We are told, however, that one day the perverse impenetrability of a blockhead was so intolerable that the professor nt List cried out: • "Sir, ia translating that passage you have made more mistakes than the words admit of.'\ ~ . .
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Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1898, Page 4
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84A Great Record. Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1898, Page 4
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