New-York tribune., 1897-06-13

nier OF wearing hunting shirts of every copcs,v-
able color. and these were permitted bv wh.s
managed such details viz wal" ""''-
,as -. ,,al central building In those days was what
hsan men: men, as now. known University 1t had
oeeu quit from the proceeds of a lottery prapte6
w the state Government in the wear ISi3 Tho
inn HiOreee chapel occupied the middle Of the build
tns % Gnu 'ne ground floor furnished four halt,
LOT .pr commons. On the original plan one was for
floor Students u, Of each class. Above the ground
90 a' one end. were some recitation rooms
anu a one or two rooms OF a good deal OF elegance
~. ntn Ior the corporation of the college: at
,. ,e other end ali the were for recitations
inlS gave ten recitation rooms for most OF the
,.,h , ~, me university: and when 1 say that
Gnaa ,y n'lIy an exception. these ten rooms suf-
need for almost all the lectures with which had
& ',ihs m TO do in college. the students OF to day
VIII ne able to how limited in practice wa.
1e 1he course of study which we went through
story of Massachusetts
IN my time however. the attendance at COM
no,n, ~ ,,;, n,'u nec"me so small that two ac-
~ 'ua'ed all the four classes and the middle
rooms We're used for the convenience az the
hanr haTr,TSs f OF students: and in daytime. per-
Nn"ie class went in for mathematics or FOR anV
rather ,nbs purpose which demanded some room
m ''i ger than the recitation-rooms upst aim.
10 TINS central building on an August Mon
seTentv ing IN lSS' there came together some
,nost 'uss from all parts Of the country,
IioSt or them. however. from New-Enrland'
t t'iIf"ads were in their infancy. and l remember
- iIIohsieuow or my class rode in a chaise
,o u,"in Portland to Cambridge and arrived q
,''f iate on the critical morning of exa mination
because he and his father had been ohIiTed -
Iiue twenty miles that day. In another chaise
OF
class. who afterward owned railroads enourh "a
SaiIH haIi the armies of the world around the
@ @mo.iu an! DAY he chose. These stud ants I re-
member. because | myself arrived amnnp IN.
sr sa.er Doys who were present. having driven out
, rom Soston in "A chaise with my older brother
VINO that year would become sophomore Thc
examination began between 6 and in the morn
ing and lasted till q the same evening: il began
again at the next morning and lasted tif .
ana we then loafed in the college yard untfi
We We We're called in to know fate to what was
men called the Corporation parlor" in which
'ne president and faculty were sitting
remember little Of that examination but ono
mater n alter mas lain in my mind snce-that in
Classroom where fourteen boys were present
nI,steIuam or London. The result of the ex-
I,i In,,,lna'lon was that seven eight were abso-
without conditions. and the rest Of the class had
ST,e whic, mhdi"rs matt in which they defective
course OF the first term "
LIFE AT CAMBRIDGE
once admitted, life was very much NOR.
,iicai wera ,i,n,i than 1t is at Cambridge We
aati1 a and Greek by far than that which we had
us VIII" WIN hna IN lou our pre- preliminary study Those OF
10 10 .ne excellence OF our preparation. But nobody
knew, knew and nobody cared, whether wasted our
.Iihe or not Nothing else offered us To do
In the time which did not have to use in
Of tbe yar tUr reci,aton The interesting part
some readers-was the ma athematical part Rem
the leading maths ma ticians of the age bad ~ ~
centiy been appointed the professor of that sub
men. ard the whole class went in to recite to
n,"I I'm on nve days in the week. 1t the fashion
aiterwaro TO say that the steps his ladder
were so far apart that no one could go I'M who
hao not remarkable gift in that line l do
not mink this was fair: think it would be morv
iair 10 say that he had great manv mor~
pupiis intrusted to him than ever should be given
10 tne oirecuon OF one man. doubt II. in any
respectable college now the professor would h.
expected to handle seventy freshmen in mathe-
mates ma and to oversee their personal work at
one time. What Is certain is that those or -.
VINO VINO cared anything about the subject became
very much attached to him, and have felt evar
since the BENEFITS which we derived from heinr
ihtrusted In our work to a frst-rate man
Cambridge was then very much more a CONN
try village surrounded by woods ponds ana
marshes. than Is any college town in New-Enr
iand have collected wild flowers in INV botan
lz1ng In Cambridge. within a quarter OF a mile of
my college room. l had garden assigned mo
oy the authorities. in which in nv Junior ana
senior years planted such ANIMALS and such
small fruits as were possible on a plot eighteen
ieet py thirty And took out our pistol.
10 nre at mark where now large dormitorV
buildings for undergraduates