President Thomas Jackson Simmons and Mrs. Simmons, Nee Lessie M. Southgate - An Appreciation #229000

A. Broadus, and the third was Prof. Simmons. His power of large and ready acquisition, the grasp, vigor and accuracy of his memory, and the ease with which his large attainments arranged themselves in systematic and even scientific order in his mind, were as remark able as the kindred qualities which have made these two gentlemen so distinguished as scholars. There was scarcely any topic within the wide range of human learning with which he did not seem familiar.