with soap on his face and a razor in his hand, what he saw was not himself, for everything he believed in and stood for and had come to Yale to talk about was not reflected in that mirror. “Henry Ward Beecher cut himself with his razor and wrote out notes for that first Beecher Lecture in blood because, whatever else he was or aspired to be or was famous for being, he was a man of flesh and blood, and so were all the men over the years who traveled to New Haven after him to deliver the same lectures.”[3]