Not long ago a member of the Raven Society, one of the rather too numerous student organizations, discovered the burial place of Poe's mother, who was an actress, and who died penniless in Richmond at the age of twenty-four and was buried with the destitute.

By a happy inspiration a fund was raised among the students for the erection of a monument to her--an example of fine and chivalrous sentiment on the part of these young men, which, one feels, is somehow delicately intertwined with the traditions of the honor system.
The Poe professor of English at the university, when we were there, was Dr.C.Alphonso Smith, who has since taken the professorship of English at the United States Naval Academy.

By a coincidence which has proved a happy one for those who love the stories of the late Sidney Porter (O.
Henry), Dr.Smith grew up as a boy with Porter, in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Because of this, and also because of Dr.Smith's own gifts as a writer and an analyst, it is peculiarly fitting that he should have undertaken the work which has occupied him for several years past, the result of which has recently been given to us in the form "The O.Henry Biography." Dr.Smith was Roosevelt exchange professor at the University of Berlin in 1910-11, holding the chair of American History and Institutions.
While occupying that professorship he met the Kaiser.
"I talked with him twice," he said, "and upon the second occasion under very delightful circumstances, for I was invited to dinner at the Palace at Potsdam, and was the only guest, the Kaiser, Kaiserin, and Princess Victoria Luise being present.
"The Kaiser is, of course, a very magnetic man.

His eyes are his most remarkable feature.