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Show COULDN'T KID THAT STUDENT Youth's Comment on Professor's Admission Ad-mission of Authorship Was Distinctly Dis-tinctly Uncomplimentary. George I'liilip Krupp 1ms not always been professor of F.nglish at Columbia. For two years be held the same position posi-tion at the University of Cincinnati, where bis modesty, as usual, was so pronounced that bis great scolarship was not evident to the typical underclassman. under-classman. One day a chap who bad Just been promoted from the freshman class bounded into bis study nnd said: "Professor Krapp, I found something strange today ; there's a book over in the library written by a man who has Just your name." "Is that so?" said Professor Krapp "What is the book?" "Why, said tile student, "it Is an account ac-count of an Anglo-Saxon work called 'Andreas and Elene.' " "Hut I wrote that book," replied the author of "Modem English, "anil half a dozen other volumes." Said the student: "Ah, gwan !" New York Evening Tost. |