Frederick never did have any trouble with discipline thereafter. Students also tell a tale about one of Professor Sword's assistants who happened to be a Chinese graduate student. One of his classmates asked him who his mathematics professor was. Actually it was Professor Campbell. The question was repeated, but the student's answer remained the same.
Some tales become embellished as they are repeated over the years.
Tis said I went right on lecturing and writing equations on the board, for all students continued to hear the chalk pecking on the blackboard. I believed in elegance, as well as in the pursuit of excellence, and used to insist that all graduate students attend the magnificent formal student dances so as to learn how to wear tuxedos comfortably, and how professionals were expected to behave in a civilized society. At one dance during the Friday midnight intermission Witt's classmates asked me if I intended to hold the 8 a.m. class next morning as usual. When they wanted to know why, I told them that they would soon forget what they learned in any one lecture, but one thing they had to learn was to get to work on time and sober after any night of frolicking and to learn to dance so that they could impress their future boss' wife, achieve early promotions, accumulate wealth and endow their alma mater. And they did, that is all but Rufus' date.