The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-20

Ao3@ AnG u2GM W@s9S aAts&4o @A0 S<AAA seh known among my teachers there. were Sparks. both Wares, Palsrey, Chan ming, Longfellow, Pierce, Felton, Lover ing, Bowen, Mason, D ma, Bache, and, older than any of the rest of thcm, dear old Francis Salet. Josiah Quincy was president A philologist did the Latin, and made us hate 1t, and we should have hated him too, had we not thought of the possibilities ct human nature, and that, deep hid in him, there must be some thing divine. Among them al, de. tested Greek and Latin, when we Jeff them at the end of the junior year, and l should never have read a word of either since, if l could help it, but that had to teach them. Then regained the natural love of them "of which" as my great master says, in its place"
 The Channipg spoken of above, was Edward ryrIel Channiug, and wish the exigencies of 7hs F0rSm would permit me to use 6Ay ot its pages in expression of gratitude to this gentleman, and in such explana nation as l could give of the skill by which he interested us in the study of English, and trained US to the use of this noblest language yet known. ] am told that, now, nobody will look over students themes if he can help it that it is a sort of drudgery from which man escapes to some duty considered higher in grade. An mel There are hundreds of us still knocking about who are grateful to him that he did not think so. And if the desr public thinks that Clarke, Holmes, Dana, Story, Lowell Higginson, Frothingham, Child, and PArkmsn write good English, let them be grateful to dear Ned Channing," who taught them how.
 The classical men made us hate Latin and Creek but the mathematical men (such menl Pierce and Lovering) made us love mathematics, and we shall always be grateful to them.
 We gained great deal from Longfel. low. He came to Cambridge in our first year. He was not so much older than we as to be distant, was always ac- cessible, friendly, and sympathetic. All poor teachers let "the book" come be tween them and the pupil. Great teach CTS never do; Longfellow never did. When the government acted like fools, as governments do sometimes, he always smooshed us down, and In general, kept us in good temper. We used to call him "the Head," which meant, head of the modern language department. One could then pick up decent ready know ledge of the modern languages in the course of the four years. No effort was made to speak or write them, and this, think, was wise.
 p,,k kA Nf sa NN t0 things which it teaches. believe the New Education thinks it is, but that is the mistake of the New F iucation." The good of college is to be had from
 the fellows" who are there, and your associations with them. With q small circle of admirable friends, of whom this world is by no means worthy, aud to a less degree in the various clubs. even in the much abused debating societies, | picked up a set of habits and facilities for doing things oae has to do, for which l am very grateful to Harvard college. 1 disliked the drudgery of college life through and through. counted the days to the next vacation from the begin ming of every term, and there was then alas, three terms in every year But, none the less, ought to say, that do not believe that any life outside of col eral do so much for man in helping him for this business of living. could get more information out ot "Chambers EncyclopH1 H1ia," which you can buy for ten dollars, than any man will acquire, as facts, by spending four years in any col. lege. But the business of changing a boy into man, or, if you please, changing an unlicked cub into we'll trained gen ,leman, is, on the whole, more simply and certainly done in good college tn an anywhere else. So, as Nestor says, it seems to me"
 7he Forum hardly expects me to give my notions as to the best method of edu- eating man for the Christian ministry. In that calling, the best and happiest thus far known to men, l have speat my life.
 This record of three schools and col. lege, which, because have been asked, lhave attempted, is not the record of my education. l owe my education chiefly to my father, my mother, and my older brother-none of whom are nov living My father always took it for granted that his children were interested in what was worthy of interest. and, if he were en- gagged in it, he made us partakers of his lite. He introduced the railway system into Ne~ Eogland. Whea was eleven years old, held his horse on the salt marshes by Charles river, while he was studying routes, grades and distances He would come back to his "chaise " and explain to me the plans and the necessi- ties, as if had been his equal. doubt if were twelve years old when he gave me a scrap of French, in the Journal der Dfbats about excavations in Assyua. and asked me to translate it for his nc v spa- per. He intrusted all of us with delicate and d ficult commissions, while we ranked as boys. He gave us his entire confidence, and never withdre~ it. re- member coming to him in rage at some absurdity ot a little man to whom the col lege had given some authority. wanted to leave the college and be done with the whole crew of them. My father showed