Professorial Advice

As Ferdinand Hitzig is said to have remarked to his students, 'Gentlemen, have you a Septuagint? If not, sell all you have, and buy a Septuagint.'
Karen H. Jobes, Invitation to the Septuagint, Baker (Grand Rapids, April 2001), 26.

Books in the Bath

Henry Chadwick, who died last June [<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2153316/The-Very-Rev-Professor-Henry-Chadwick.html> and <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4166998.ece>], is said to have owned so many books that he had to keep some in the bathtub of his college rooms.

He is reported to have said, "Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory".