1. Since the University of Virginia is the news, I want to tell a pertinent story about James Joseph Sylvester, who once taught there.
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7. There were two brothers in particular who hated Sylvester for giving them bad marks. They challenged him to a duel.
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8. Sylvester started carrying around a sword-cane. When the brothers attacked, he mildly wounded one of them.
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