on Harding,was a professor at Lehigh University,and it was arranged that Richard should go to Bethlehem the following fall,live with his uncle,and continue his studies at Ulrich's Preparatory School,which made a specialty of preparing boys for Lehigh.My uncle lived in a charming old house on Market Street in Bethlehem,quite near the Moravian settlement and across the river from the university and the iron mills.He was a bachelor,but of a most gregarious and hospitable disposition,and Richard therefore found himself largely his own master,in a big,roomy house which was almost constantly filled with the most charming and cultivated people.There my uncle and Richard,practically of about the same age so far as their viewpoint of life was concerned,kept open house,and if it had not been for the occasional qualms his innate hatred of mathematics caused him,I think my brother would have been completely happy.Even studies no longer worried him particularly and he at once started in to make friendships,many of which lasted throughout his life.

As is usual with young men of seventeen,most of these men and women friends were several times Richard's age,but at the period Richard was a particularly precocious and amusing youth and a difference of a few decades made but little difference--certainly not to Richard.Finley Peter Dunne once wrote of my brother that he "probably knew more waiters,generals,actors,and princes than any man who lived,"and I think it was during the first yea-->>

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