STORIES ABOUT PROFESSOR SOPHOCLES.

The late Professor Sophocles is pleasantly remembered by the many Harvard men resident in this locality, writes a Worcester correspondent to the Springfield Republican. They tell a variety of curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled hay!" At another time he manifested in a singular way his distaste for the society of the gentler sex. While talking with a friend in a reception room, a man approached and said that there were certain young women present who desired an introduction to Professor Sophocles. The professor signified his willingness to meet them, and they were ushered up, but as the name of each was announced, responding with a bow and a majestic wave of the hand, motioning her away, he simply remarked, "That is sufficient," and thus closing the interview with them all, returned to conversation with his friend.