Smyrna times., 1936-06-18

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the various branches, and with
numerous pupils from the penin-
| sula as well as some from Penn
sylvania. In its day it undoubted-
ly was the best school south of the
city of Wilmington. 1t began to
decline after the establishment of
the Conference Academy at Dover,
of which Mr.. Skinner was induced
to become the head. 1t was at
FELTON, Seminary that I was pre-
pared for my university career. I
had, at first, intended to go to
Harvard, but later, on the sugges-
tion of Nathaniel B. Smithers, L
was examined and admitted as a
student at Lafayette College at
Easton, Pennsylvania, of which
Mr.. Smithers was an aIumnus. Be-
fore the autumn, however, it was
decided that I should go with some
other Delawareans, including the
late Willard Salisbury, son of
Chancellor Salisbury, one of my
fathers early schoolmasters, to the
University of Virginia. This de-
cision never nave regretted, be-
cause at the University of Virginia
1 enjoyed the instruction of certain
great teachers, of whom I would
particularly mention Thomas Ran
dolph Price, who had just succeed
ed Basil L. Gildersleeve as Profess
sor of Greek. Of Prices course in
Greek I have been accustomed to
say that it was great course in
Greek, a great course in Greek his
tory, a great course in compare
tive philology, and the only course
in English I ever had; and I have
said this in full view of the fact
that among my subjects at the
University of Virginia was a
course in English literature. Price
had not only profound knowledge
of the technique of the English
language but also the keenest
sense of its unsurpassed beauty
and power. He loved the old
forms as found in the Bible, in
Shakespeare and in Milton. He
wrote one of the only two analytic
al disquisitions in English on the
verse of Shakespeare, showing how
that greatest master of our tongue
had achieved strength and variety
by using the stave rather than
meter. I have mentioned the fact
that my first schoolmaster, Skin
ner, had been a Union soldier.
When the Civil War broke out
Price was student at the Uni
versity of Berlin, but, on the call
of Virginia, his native State, he
found his way through the block
ade and entered the Confederate
army, in which he served to the
end of the conflict.
Studied Law With e. G. Bradford
| Long before the completion of
my academic course I decided to
study law, and in the autumn of
/ 4ooO l. was C4ilCl CQ oo q SIIACAb Ill
the Office of Edward G.. Bradford.
at Wilmington, Delaware. This
step 1 never had any reason, scien-
tific or personal, to regret.
would not have exchanged my
| training in Bradfords Office for
any law school course I have ever
known. I was his first and, for a
time, his only student, and my in
struction combined the reading of
/ treatises with such aid as I was
able to give him in the prepara-
| ton of his cases. He had legal
mind of the first order, as was
demonstrated in his career at the
bar and later on the bench. But
| to the benefits derived from my
associations with him, must add
the priceless recollections of a
friendship that in one sense ended
with his death, but in another
sense never can end so long as I
myself live.
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