aedia. He also edited
two or three Greek plays and an edition of Homer, which was
extensively used as a text-book.

Professor Felton was a very impulsive man, though of great
dignity and propriety in his general bearing. He had some
theories of his own as to the matter of pure and correct
English and was very much disgusted if anybody transgressed
them. His brother, John Felton, of the class of 1847, afterward
the foremost lawyer on the Pacific Coast, was altogether the
best and most brilliant scholar in his class. He was reported
to the Faculty just before his graduation for the offence
of swearing in the College Yard, an offence which was punished
by what was called a public admonition which involved a considerable
loss of rank and a letter to the parent or guardian of the
offender. The Faculty, in consideration of John Felton's
excellent scholarship, instead of the ordinary punishment
directed that Professor Felton should admonish his brother
of his fault in private. The professor was some eighteen
or twenty years the elder and respected by his brother rather
as a father than as a brother. He sent for John to his study
and told him the nature of the complaint, and proceeded: "I
cannot tell you how mortified I am that my brother, in whose
character and scholarship I had taken so much pride, who stood
so high in his class, should have been reported to the Faculty
for this vulgar and wicked offence." John said, with great
contrition: "I am exceedingly sorry. It was under circumstances
of great provocation. I have never been guilty of such a
thing before. I never in my life have been addicted to profanity."
"Damnation, John," interposed the professor, "how often have
I told you the word is profaneness and not profanity?" It
is needless to say that the sermon ended at that point.

But the most interesting single figure in the Harvard Faculty
in my day was James Walker. He was a man of quiet dignity,
and of modest bearing. He appeared rather awkward when he
walked, as if there were some want of strength in the feet
or ankles. He heard the classes in my time in Jouffroy and
Cousin and in Butler's "Analogy." His method was to require
the boy to get into his mind some account of a system or special
course of reasoning of the author and to state it at considerable
length in his own language. I think all that I got out of
college that was of much use to me came from this training
in James Walker's recita