Hilliard Streets, now (with much propriety) occupied by law students. Tradition asserts that when he wished to be alone he would take his massive beaver hat from its peg in the hall, and retire with it into his study; if a caller inquired for him, a glance at the empty peg showed he must have gone out!
Two portraits of Story hang in the school, both noticeable for the moon-like red face and its aspect of extraordinary benevolence, beaming upon the beholder through gold-bowed spectacles. One is irresistibly reminded of Mr. Pickwick. G. W. Huston, LL.B. 1843, says:
Story was a low, heavy-set man—very fair skin, blue eyes, with but little hair on his head, being very bald save a little tuft on the top of his forehead, which he often combed during lectures with a fine comb carried in his vest pocket. He was easy of access and beloved by the young men. …He kept up constant letter-writing to and with many of the great men of Europe. Professor Greenleaf was taller, black hair in profusion, and keen black eyes. I have heard him say, I believe, he was forty years old before he began studying law in Maine where he was raised. He was not popular with the boys, being sometimes sarcastic. His mind was acute and his reasoning hair-splitting.[1]
Greenleaf, indeed, was in many respects the exact opposite of his colleague. In the words of Professor Parsons:
- ↑ Harv. Law Review, xi, 122.
