New Britain herald., 1922-02-24
INTIMATE STUDY
 0F LIFE 0F POPE
Professor Unman Tells of Prin-
 Cipal Traits of Prelate

Iowa City, la, Feb. 24.-His hum ble loyalty is the striking quality of the new Pope, Plus XI, as noted by a personal friend. pr. B. l.. ITllman. professor and head of the departme of Latin and Greek at the University of Iowa.
 He was kindly and courteous and a very human being" Professor Ullman says.
 T first met Achile Ratti in 1906 when I visited the Ambrosian Library at Milan to examine certain Latin manuscripts" pr. ullman said. At that time he was a plain doctor of the Ambrosian and acted as assist ant librarian. The Ambrosian Li brary is one Of the famous libraries of Italy and contains some very valu- able Manuscripts. These manu- scripts were Ratti's constant com panions and friends. He worked with them all day long, examining and studying the old treasures which he loved.
 "The most striking quality which l found in Ratti in 1906 was his attl- tude of respect, admiration. loyalty, and deep humility towards his super for, the librarian of the Am mbrosian Antonio Ceriani. who even than was i'll and who died soon after. It is certain that Ceriani had a profound influence on Schille Ratts life. After Ceriani's death, Ratti. who succeeded him as librarian. was very active Tn bringing out memorial volume Of scholarly papers in Ceriani's honor, His attitude toward Ceriani is no doubt an indication of one of the new Pope's chief qualities, his humble loyalty.
 "Ratti was very helpful to me in my work, not only in 1906, but also in 1907 and 1910, when revisited the Ambrosian and spent some time there in intimate contract with the man.
 Classical scholars and photograph
 "Classical scholars and photograph scholarship as displayed in numer- ous learned articles. These articles are generally concerned with manu- scripts.
 T possess several of his articles, autographed copies which he sent me at various time. We kept up a de- sultory correspondence from our first meeting in 1906. o5.
 "In one of his articles he tells about rummaging among some old manuscripts and coming upon certain fragments which suddenly attracted my attention and piqued my curios- ity.' There you have the character stic attitude of the scholar making a discovery. It was q great surprise to me that he left the field of scholar ship for the diplomatic and executive. We have one more illustrious example to prove that scholarship is a splendid foundation for any career
 Il was greatly astonished to learn that the new Pope was nearly 65 years old. Judging by the way he looked in 1910, rly guess was that he was not much more than 50 at the present time. He has many years be- fore him. The pictures recently pub lished are excellent likenesses. The very recent ones clearly show the change in facial expression due to field of quiet scholarship 10 that of more strenuous executive work.
 Tn spite of the few weeks l spent in his company, I feel that I know the Pope intimately because we sat side by side all day long and ex- changed views on matters of common He was kindly and courte- ous to me and very human being, Tn 1910 he discussed with Mrs. ITll- man, who accompanied me, the best methods of sweeping up floors with out dust