Their opinion of him was extremely deflative
Whenever they viewed his disdain for the dative.
None of them ever would take any stock
In his curious ways with the voc. and the loc.
Often, In flouting his wayward accusative,
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Some of them got to be downright abusative.
From classical halls he was given the boot
For making the ablative too absolute.
His critics' avowals were hyperemphatic
That ever his Latin continued erratic.
They naturally knew there was no avail
In dispatching such a dunce to Yale,
So at last they gave him a domi diploma,
But not, you bet, in the language of Roma. K. DuPont Lamont