The Newtown bee., 1894-08-10

hOCh anu I1ONGE $ l4tdp. lb IS ou SuSh occasions that MT Upson allows the dig nity and gravity of the school room to unbend and shows himself to be, as he really is, most companionable man.
 Upson Seminary is a home school; this is it's crowning distinction. The aim of it's principal is not to make it a large school, demanding a large corps of teachers and in every particular giving the impression of greatness. Itis great in it's smallness, multum in parvo. The endeavor has always been to keep it | small and the yearly prospectus states the purpose of this: tIhe number of students is limited to F, thus making possible that personal interest and su- pervision which are indispensable to the | best results in physical training, mental discipline and noblest character build | ing" When Mir Upson, at the same time with conducting the school, per formed the duties of pastor of the village church, the number of pupils was not more than seven, and never at any time since the opening of the school in 1869 has the number been more than l5. It can be seen at once that this gives par tcular character to the school; it makes one large family of all the members Each boy comes to think of this as his home and, if he places his own home first in order of prominence, Upson Sem mary is his second home. The pigs, the ho inc arIiTDaFp and inanimate about the place, every boy feels himself individually interested in, and he generally claims part owner ship in the stock. In the early history of the school the students spent the en- tire year at the school, as they do now long distances.
 There is another feature which has marked the history of Upson Seminary and made it unique among schools of it's class. This is the fact that it's patron age has almost exclusively come from those who hold high social position and who are distinguished for their wealth and intelligence. The circumstance which led to the founding of the school might well be in place here. President Porter of Yale college had long known MT Upson, and between whom and MT Upson existed a warm personal friend- ship as long as the former lived.
 J. Donald Cameron, the well known United States Senator from Pennsyl- vania, desiring to find a good school in which to place ward, applied to Presi- dent Porter for advice, who recommend ed Mir Upson, whereupon he visited him for the purpose of arranging the details. When MT Upson gave him his price he generously said he would give three times as much and the boy remained four years under MT Upson's care. Later the senator placed another youth under MT Upson's care, who remained eight years. Two years later these two boys were joined by son of Rear Admiral Foote of the United States Navy, and thus the nucleus of the school was form ed. The fourth was son of Col II. W. Brge of the 18th Connecticut Volun- teers, who was hreveted as major gener- al during the war, Col Birge being eager to have his old chaplain as tutor for his son.
 Since enlarging the house in 1878 Mir Upson has employed college graduate as an assistant. The school is located in a town that is in some respects unusu- ally sequestered and isolated from the busy life of the world, but this has not prevented it's reaching out it's arms and drawing it's pupils from the very ends of the earth. Among the countries repre- sented on it's roll of students are Porto Rico, Chili. Japan, Germany and India. The history of one Japanese student is an exceptionally brilliant one. His name was Shiro Akabane and he studied at the seminary in it's early days. After fitting under MT Upson for the Sheffield scientific school of Yale and completing his course there, he went back to his own country and taught for year in the University of Tokio. Sinoe then he has filled many positions of trust and honor, among them acting as Secretary of Le- gation to Germany, serving in the State department of the Mikado's government, representing Japan at the coronation of the Czar, and discharging the duties of the first seeretaryship of the Japanese Legation at our own national capitol.
 Among other noted patrons of this school who stand ready at any time to speak for it words of warmest praise are Rev Theodore l.. Cuyler, D. D., Mayor Arthur W Brady of Muncie, Ind, who prepared for college here, and Joseph Jefferson, whom we all familiarly know through his immortalizing the character of Rip Van Wrinkle. Some of these pa irons and friends of the school have felt such keen interest in it's welfare be- cause of the good that their boys have received within it's walls that they have gladly given of their time and talents to render the stay of the boys pleasant and
 instructive. Dr Cuyler has many times been heard here in his justly famous
 ssParlor Talks ,'' one of these, given be-
 fore an audience of 15O invited guests .on
 Dr Horace Bushnell, whose boyhood
 days were passed in New Preston,
 arousing such enthusiasm that it was
 unanimously voted to call one of the mo-