Show SIMPLE MATTER TO EXPLAIN As It IE Happened However It Was Rather Embarrassing to One Idle Student Professor Gurney was one of the most genial Instructors and the most skillful of disciplinarians As a teacher teach teach- er Gurney was always kind and ami courteous but nevertheless a n terror to drones and evildoers For example take the case of or a II student who was afterward n a professor in the medical school We were reading leading Cicero Epistles In the lesson for the day he was describing a n scene In court when It was evident that lint In the mornIng morn mornIng Ing lag before the the witnesses came In UH they the had bc been n suborned mill and Instructed l what to testify I will call the Mu dent Drake Druke He had bad not looked at n athis athis his lesson tesson and when called upon began began began be be- gan to translate until he Iw carne came C to this passage He ne could make nothing of or It bu but looked up with a n helpless air nil and saidI saidI said I dont don't think I understand this pas pas' passage sage Gurney bowed and with the thi utmost suavity said It means Sir Mr Drake that that they had learned their lesson before they came In In tin till moral morning ng As that was exactly what It did lId mean menn the fellows set up a shout ant and amI Drake dropped Into his seat Ib Ila yard vard Graduates' Graduates Magazine 1 |