You have been a great teacher if you inspire your student to write your biography. Really. I've read it several times. Does he believe that? Doesn't a great teacher urge a student beyond discipleship?

"You have hissed my mystery lectures and tasted a whole worm," he told a student. At Liberty and Power, the 19th century American hero is Lysander Spooner (1808-1887). Here at Cliopatria, we're rather fond of his British cousin, the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), the Warden at Oxford. He is remembered for his tribute to Victoria as"our queer old dean." Lowell Thomas followed in his tradition by introducing Sir Stafford Cripps as Sir Stifford Craps.