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On October 1, 1906, he had been professor of Greek fifty
years, an event allowed to pass unobserved until a year later
—his seventy-sixth birthday, October 23, 1907—when he was

Professor John B. Minor, LL.D., at fifty-eight
1813-1895

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accorded by his many educational friends a befitting golden
jubilee. Teachers of Greek and other classical scholars contributed
beautiful testimonials of his life's worth and work,
while newspapers noticed the event at length in the local
columns and in brief editorially. I wrote him personally,
receiving this reply: