The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1891-06-18

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po~sAsssen ibonshi would srsil nyseli
Of iks opportsniiy fer sesaisg admission
10 ike oelissa ! therefore ipqaired iof
TIE resitspes Of some college osheer.
The seriiesnss found Vas Tutor Mills
Day. brother Of Jerepish Day, thee one
Of The professors and afterwards president
Of tho college. When sis.ea The object
Of my cell hls Gre, irquiry ss:-
Have you brought any booksi
s1pI.ised vhy bad not. being only
tom porsrily in The city.
TAXING from bis library copy OF yr
eiI's Assi5. all Of uh,ch I had cfefuily
read, tboash Only siH books we're nqaired
be save me fes passages 10 these 10 sns
I'VE and translate. tbs done. hr snbs'i
,uied Tor it- Haeid = copy u Cinero's
Of.ii01s, four II which were required 10
be re.d on sppiJiss for eufsncs 10 the
fnsbgsn clsss. s~lccIrg = ies Psssasrs
which disposed 81 rs ] had. dose those
N The former volume, be then laid before
ne "a .nciels copy loi the Greek Tssis.
u..srt - hieh yes all the Greek required
to i've Issd by candidates fer The heel man
clsss.
wnh this was somewhat puzzled by
the sbhrryisiiors 10 the ancient volume.
He ssid he would interpret these, which
be Kindly did; and vas able to do oil he
seemed TO have expected u ne In that
book. Then asking me few questions in
vulgar arithmetic. be remarked TO my sur
prise.
Your examination 10 quite satisfactory,
sod You msy consider yourself member
Of the freshman class. entering this fall.
On returning to college 81 the opening
OF the term In October found myself .
mem Der OF the freshmsn class. consisting
Of between seventy and eighty ycuDg men
aud lads gathered from ell parts OF the
country, except the West. tbsn compara'
lively unsettled. The academic depart.
msnt vss oil there then was OF Yale Col
lege.
The whole number Of ita tents was
about three hundred. Til teA hers we're
The firs. President Dwight. Pro sssors Day
SiIIimsu and KiOg,ley. nd six tutors.
Each class on entering lie college was
divided into two sections, sIusl in mum.
Der. each section being ON nitted 10 the
charge Of . single tutor. who heard oil
their Rotations 10 text books until the
class arrived at the seDior year, when they
fell under the instruction Of the Presi
dent.
The buildings for the accommodation OF
tbs students and the exercises OF the 10
stitution were Eve in number-three dor
mitofles, plsin brick buildings, with tso
intervening cues, The southern one, 9
chapel with a ll..lender spire, sfterward
supplsuled BY another structure. when
the building became the observatory. The
other intervening building, called the ly
ceuu,. contained rooms for the library and
philosophical apparatus and for lectures
and recitstions. The basement beneath
vas the chemical laboratory.
The text books used In the college
course during the freshman year we're as
follows: Livy. Cicero de Oratore, komsn
Antiquities, Homer and Graeca Minors,
Morses Geography in two large volumes.
reci.sd memoriter and the Rrst volume Of
Webber's Mathematics. containing srith.
metic and algebra.
Sophomore Year Horace, GrsecA Ma
jors, consisting Of extracts from sncient
Greek authors, Mnrray's large English
Grammar. Euclid and the second volume
OF .Webbe,s Mathematics, with Flints
Surveying.
JunieT Year -Grasca Msjora continued
Taciius, Ssllust, Tyler's History. Fergu'
son on Civil Society and En6eld's Natural
Philosophy.
Declarations and composition contin,
ued through the three years
Senior Yesr-Blsir's Lectures on Rhe'
toric, Duncan's Logic, Locke's Essays and
Vincents Westminster Cs.echism. These
we're oil Taught BY the president, whose
Rotations on Mondays in the last mem
toned book were Of peculiar interest and
had his especial attention.
lackboards. whether in school or col.
leges. we're then unknown. The tutor in
hearing recitations 10 mathematics kept
his eyes 90 the figure 10 the tex, book.
while the pupils held accurate sketches Of
the sams 10 their hands. Such ~ we're
willing TO attend 10 the answers of their
classmates kept their eyes upon these till
the demonstration ended.
All the students then boarded in com
mons. A steward was employed to pur.
chsse the provisions, and his sslsry. With
the cos. OF the same and the wages Of his
employes,wss .quslizsd at the close Of
each term aud The price Of board thereby