p.

Spaulding, school N. Barre would
be a better place for you, since
he has usually, a large class
of young men and preparation.
With me you would be alone
in your studies. I should
give you all necessary time
and perhaps the necessity of
reciting the whole of every les-
son and of answering every
question might more than make
up for the excitement to ef-
fort included by contact with
other minds in the same stud-
ies. I have been here only one year,
and have no scholars ad-
vanced to within one year
of college. A fair number
of young men have already en-
listed for the fall, but,
tho' several of them are
in Latin, they are only begin-
ners, all being in the Readers

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yet. I trust that you
may have found a sit-
uation to your mind.
A fit for College should
be thorough, and there is danger
that if you teach while you
study, you will not have
time to be as thorough
in attending to the particles
and minutiae of the grammar
of the languages you propose
to study as you should
be. If you wish to get along
easily in College and have
for general culture, you must
master the formulae of the Latin
and Greek grammars, rather than
attempt to read over much ground
in either language.

As I said, I should
be pleased to have you with
me as a scholar, but I cannot
now offer you the situation