Litchfield enquirer., 1874-12-31
Goshen Mo..l66.

"e'S AAoAN Aocs VONAC0Aay evening. OOuu M. Wadhams, the senior member of the Board of Trustees, was appointed chair.
 man. After an appropriate piece of music from the members of the school, Captain Willard Gaylord gave an interesting ac. count of the efforts put forth by our fath- CTS to start the Academy; how they ob. tained charter from the legislature, in 1923, which, not proving to be exactly what was needed, twas followed by the new charter of 1927. The names of all our principal men, and one lady appear in the last charter, and it was provided that the Trustees and Principal should be ex-offi clo members of the corporation, and that when the last original members should be dead, the Trustees should keep their number filled, thus making the institution perpetual They are now all dead except Horatio N. Lyman, of New Haven. The Academy was built by Mir. Judd. of .Litchfeld. MT. Gaylord gave list of all the teachers, thirty in number. I should have mentioned the beautiful notices on the walls made of ivy leaves, 1924. 1874. "Forgetful of Self, Mindful of Others. :" "E Labore ad Honorem.
 Henry Norton then read twelve long pages of "reminiscences from those who were absent. The first letter was from Rev. Augustus T. Norton, of Alton, Ill. He lived with Judge Lyman when the Academy was built in 1894, and often heard the remark, "We must be sure to get first rate man for our first teacher" but they were quite unfortunate, as the Rev. Mir. Burchard did not succeed as a teacher, and stayed only one winter. He was succeeded by Mir. Mills from Canton, who was very successful, and remained five years. Under his tuition, the writer, as well as great many others, prepared for college. The next was from Rev. John F. Norton, of Natick, Mass. was connect ed with the school from the beginning, until he entered Yale College, and after wards came back as teacher. He gave a long list of young men who had left this school for the College in New Haven. Among them was George B. Hawley, now a physician in Hartford, who, when re- monstrated with for asking so much for his old Latin Reader, replied that it was worth two new ones, for it had just got the hang of study. There were also four by tie name of De Forest. William was the one who, when called to account for absence from prayers at college, told Pres ident Day that the bell-rope made so much noise up by his room, that he could not hear the bell. Mir. Norton mentioned many ladies who have distinguished them selves as teachers; among them is Mrs. Elizabeth Powers Forbes, now teaching in Buffalo. Major Gen. John Sedgwick was 8 pupil of Mir. Mills, as well as Albert Wright. (now physician in North Ca naan) tall aad straight as an arrow when upon the stage to declaim. Dr. Henry Buell. of Litchfeld was pupil when the writer taught. He gave an account of the Chemical Lectures. when Ephraim Lyman, Mark Ives, Augustus c. Thomp- son, and the writer Gall ministers and missionaries afterward,) took the Nitrous Oxide, now called laughing gas. Dr. Reed, now a merchant in Pittsfeld was the lec- turer. He closes with. ''May the Acade- my have green old age, and bear precious fruit for fifty years to come"
 The next was from Rev. Robert Norton, lately of St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada. He began to attend the school when he was eight years old, and after finishing his education there, was teacher in 1889 and 40. will quote few sentences. ''I felt reverential awe, for the preceptor, who sat in the green desk, and an awe without reverence for the scores of big boys that surrounded him. I remember my first attempt at oratory. I asked to go to the lectures, and cried for it too, but I only got stern refusal, for was too young; but one day as special priv ilege, the mysterious clapboards were unlocked, and I was shown the apparatus. I feasted upon the sights until felt that had seen enough glory for one day" Next to the Church, Goshen owes most to her Academy; to me she seems venera- able. The Academy Eagle has felt the heat of summer, and the wintry storms, and the snowballing for half century, but there he sits unchanged; not feather is lost from his wings, or an arrow from his talons. I hope to make many a pilgrim age to my native town, and often to see her fair front again. But it may not be often. would that my last pilgrimage might be thither. and that the sunset of my life might be upon the hills of Goshen and there would I be buried"
 MT. Theodore s. Gold, of West Corn
 wall, was present, and gave very many in.
 terestlng incidents. He was present the
 first day [six years of age,) and remained
 until he went to college; he afterwards
 taught in the Academy two years. Hs
 spoke of the exhibitions; of the tragedy
 of Douglass, and took us back to old times.
 After short recess, the chairman re
 quested all who had ever been connected
 with the school to rise, that they might
 be counted, but so many had been stand
 ing all the evening, that it was necessar,
 to send telIers through the crowd who re
 ported the number ninety-eight.
 Rev. Mir. Hagen told us how his fathe,
 had taught the grammar school in tn.
 conference room in 1918 and '19, laying
 the foundation for the Academy. Mis-,
 Nettleton, the principal, and her pupils
 did much to increase fhe interest of tn,
 exercises. The remarks of the Chairman
 Deacon NJ. D. F. Smith, Edward Norton
 Albert Wadhams and John W. Brook