The will of Stephen Girard provided that no clergyman should ever be allowed to enter the splendid Girard College at Philadelphia.
One day a very clerical looking man, with immaculate white cravat and choker, approached the entrance.
“You can’t come in here,” said the janitor.
“The —— I can’t!” said the stranger.
“Oh,” said the janitor, “excuse me. Step right in.”
It is said that the visitor was the late State Senator Sessions, of Western New York.
The following anecdote of ex-President Roosevelt’s youth is told:
When Roosevelt was a student at Harvard he was required to recite a poem in public declamation. He got as far as a line which read:
“When Greece her knees in suppliance bent,” when he stuck there.