Something To Sustain Him In Life
My father, a physician who was educated in a German classical gymnasium, cherished the following story: His Greek professor, bidding goodbye to a student being withdrawn by his father for a business apprenticeship, was heard to say sorrowfully: “What a pity he couldn’t stay for the irregular verbs! One more month and he’d have had something to sustain him in life.—Eva Brann, Homeric Moments
