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LEARNERS AS LEADERS Charles Sheldon, who like Plato's young men was in love with all knowledge—so much so indeed that he attended all possible courses of lectures and collected degrees—in those days they were London degrees—much as boys collect postage stamps. His ready sympathy and genial influence during the six or seven years of his studentship did much to preserve the moral and spiritual health of successive annual classes of Quay Street students. His life was spent as a teacher remote from his early friends; many of us cherish his memory as that of a shepherd of souls. 16