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The following are the names of those who have served as superintending school committee, as members of the school board of the town district and as members of the board of education of Union District No. 2.
The date at the left indicates the year when elected ; the figures at the right show the number of consecutive years served from that date.
SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE
New Chester
18II W. W. Sargent 9 1815 John Smith I
Ebenezer Kimball
4 1816 Jerahmeel Bowers 2
Isaac Winchester I 1818 George W. Sumner I
1812 Dr. Sethus Forbes 8 1819 Luther K. Madison I
Bridgewater
1810 Thomas Crawford 1814 Chauncey Booth
Dea. Joshua Fletcher 2 Benjamin Boardman
David Smiley
Bristol
1820 Moses H. Bradley
8 1822 Dr. Samuel Smith 7
James Minot
I 1823 Robert Smith I
William Lewis 2 Joseph Moore I
SCHOOL-HOUSE, UNION DISTRICT
EDUCATIONAL
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1823 Gilman Ingalls, Jr. I 1842 Josiah Minot 3
1824 Nathaniel G. Upham I Rev. Daniel O. Morton I Capt. Ones. Page 2 1845 Dr. Moody C. Sawyer I
1826 Nathaniel G. Upham I
Joseph B. Eastman I
1827 Joseph Moore I
1847 Dr. Jacob S. Eaton
I
1828 Jerahmeel Bowers 2 1848 No record
Robert Smith I
1849 Dr. Moody C. Sawyer I
1829 Peter C. Carleton I
James Moore 2
Samuel T. W. Sleeper Joseph Moore I
I 1850 Dr. M. C. Hoyt 2
N. B. Bryant 2
1830-31 No record
1851 Dr. Ira S. Chase
I
1832 Samuel Smith Did
1852 Rev. Calvin Holman I
Robert Smith
1853 George W. Tenney
4
Nicholas Dolloff serve
1857 Lewis W. Fling
I
1833-4 No record
1858 Rev. Josiah Hooper
I
1835 Joseph Moore 3
1859 Samuel K. Mason
2
Dr. Jacob S. Eaton 3
1861 Rev. H. S. Sleeper
I
Jonathan Emmons I 1862 Rev. John Currier I
1836 Rev. John S. Winter I 1863 Rev. Charles F. Abbott
Rev. Matthew Newhall I 2 Samuel H. Stevens 2 1866 Dr. James M. Bishop 3
1837 Samuel T. W. Sleeper 4 1869 Rev. Silas Ketchum 3
1838 Nathaniel S. Berry I 1870 Dr. Chas. C. Odlin I
Nicholas Dolloff 3
1872 Rev. Chas. F. Abbott
I
1839 Solomon Cavis I Dr. James M. Bishop 2
Dr. Moody C. Sawyer 2 George T. Crawford 3
Robert Smith 2 1873 Samuel E. Holden 2
1840 Samuel H. Stevens I 1875 Dr. James M. Bishop Charles Forrest
I
1842 Dr. Jacob S. Eaton 3 1877 Nancy A. Durgin
3
Samuel H. Stevens 5 1880 Dr. George H. Calley 4
Dr. Moody C. Sawyer I 1884 Dr. James M. Bishop I
School Board of Town District
1886 Calvin H. Mudgett 2 1895 Edwin T. Pike 3
Solon Dolloff
5 1896 Hiram T. Heath 6
Elijah Sanborn 7 1898 Silas S. Brown 3
1888 Charles N. Drake I 1900 Charles F. Huckins
3
1889 Almon C. Hastings 3 1901 Wilbur F. Gale
3
1891 Augustus J. Ferrin 3 1902 LaForest S. Ballou 2
1892 Charles N. Drake 3 1903 Hadley B. Worthen I
1893 Calvin H. Martin 3 Abbie A. Curtice
I
1894 Sarah F. Worthen 6
Board of Education Union District No. 2
1878 Dr. Hadley B. Fowler I 1878 George M. Cavis I George A. Emerson I
Rev. Nathan C. Lothrop I
2
1841 No record
1864 Levi D. Johnson
Rev. Daniel O. Morton 3 1846 Rev. A. H. Worthing 3
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1878 Dr. James M. Bishop I 1888 Mae L. Crosby 2
Lewis W. Fling 8 1889 Walter Dole
1879 Sarah J. Lothrop 2 1890 Richard W. Musgrove 6 Mary E. Ballou 2 Charles W. Fling 3
Allen W. Bingham I 1891 Dr. Channing Bishop 6
Anna P. Bartlett I
John H. Brown 2
1880 Myra S. Judkins I
Myra S. Judkins 2
1881 Dr. James M. Bishop 2 1892 Laura A. Berry 3
George H. Calley 3 1893 Rev. John W. Savage 2 Charles H. Calley I David M. Calley 4 Julia A. Kirk 2
Margaret H. Fling 3
Emily A. Drake 3 1895 Kenson E. Dearborn 3 2 Dr. John C. Wheet Albro Wells 81
1882 Martha Alexander 3
1883 Ira A. Chase 3
1884 Kenson E. Dearborn 3
1896 Fred H. Ackerman 6
1897 Rev. John W. Savage 2
1898 Clara J. Fields
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Charles W. Fling 4
Ida A. Weymouth 5
1886 Rev. George J. Judkins 5 Carrie C. Dearborn 4 1899 Eva S. French 4
Rev. John A. Bowler I
1902 Frank N. Gilman 21
Roswell Cutler 21
Margaret H. Fling -
I
1903 Addie M. Drake
1888 Hattie E. Edgerly 3
Emma P. Berry
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Dr. Hadley B. Fowler 3
Those who have served as superintendents in Union district, commencing with 1886, are, Rev. George J. Judkins, 1886-'90; Myra S. Judkins, 1891-'92; Dr. Channing Bishop, 1893-'96; Rev. John W. Savage, 1897-'98 ; Ida A. Weymouth, 1899-1900 ; Eva S. French, 1901-'02; Ida A. Weymouth, 1902; Addie M. Drake, 1903'.
'Now serving.
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Robert A. Horner I
1885 Rev. HerveyG. Pillsbury I Laura A. Berry 3
1887 William C. White 2
CHAPTER XXVIII
BRISTOL IN LITERATURE
He that writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends ; there's not a guest But will find something wanting, or ill-drest. -Howard.
To American literature Bristol has made a substantial contribution. The town has produced poets, prose writers, journalists, teachers, theologians, and critics. Many Bristol writers have achieved distinction; among them, Rev. John Brodhead Wentworth, Frederic Adolphus Moore, Rev. Silas Ketchum, Marian Douglas, Josephine Augusta Cass, Annie Sargent Hammond, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Prof. Fred Lewis Pattee.
Rev. John Brodhead Wentworth, D. D., LL. D., a leading divine of the Methodist Episcopal church, was the first native of Bristol to attain distinction as an author. He was born on the Homans farm, at the western base of Bristol Peak, Aug. 29, 1823. When he was about eight years old, his parents moved to Dover. He was prepared for college in the public schools of that city and at the seminary at South Newmarket, the prede- cessor of the Northfield and Tilton seminaries. He was graduated from the University of Vermont, Burlington, in 1848. After two years as teacher in Dover and Rochester, he removed to Attica, N. Y., where, in 1851, he began an eminent career as a Methodist divine. He became a member of the Genesee confer- ence, and, with the exception of two years as pastor of the M. E. church at Evanston, Ill., remained a member till his death. He held the leading appointments of the conference, was presid- ing elder ten years, conference secretary two years, a delegate to the General Conference six times, and a trustee of Syracuse University twenty years. He received his honorary degrees from the University of Vermont in 1861. He was the author of several theological works, the most important of which was a metaphysical work on The Logic of Introspection ; or, Method in Mental Science. This book was issued by Nelson & Hunt, New York, in 1886. It called forth very complimentary reviews from the press of the country. Dr. Brodhead died in August 1893.
Frederic Adolphus Moore, journalist and poet, was born in
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Bristol, Feb. 11, 1826. He attended school at the Hebron academy and the New Hampton Literary institution, and went to Manchester to read law ; but he studied Emerson, Carlyle, and Horace Greeley more than he studied Blackstone, and he finally gave his whole attention to journalism. In 1851, he established The Manchester Mirror, and was the first editor of that paper. From 1852 to 1854 he was associated with Abraham Lincoln as a writer for The Springfield (111.) Journal. With M. M. Pomeroy, he founded The LaCrosse Democrat. He resided in LaCrosse from 1854 to 1862, and was for several years editor of The Democrat. He was then associate editor of The Daily Wisconsin, published in Milwaukee. Later, he was a resident of Washington, D. C., where he reported for The Daily Wisconsin, and had charge of the reporter's gallery. Mr. Moore was the author of several books, and was a poet of some note. In 1850, he compiled The Book of Gems ; a Gift for all Seasons. He died at Nashua, Dec. 7, 1888, while en route to his summer home in Goffstown. The following poem from his pen was published in New Hampshire Poets :
THE BACHELOR'S SONG.
A single life's the life for me, Bright sunny isles are there ; I'll dash wide o'er its bounding sea, Nor love nor hate the fair. With fearless heart and manly pride, Against the surging strife, My peaceful bark will gallant ride, Untroubled with a wife.
Who tamely lets a woman's art His foolish heart enthrall, Will surely learn, too late, alas, That love's a humbug all ! 'Tis all a cheat, a lie, a show, To trap poor silly men - Old maids to Bedlam all may go, And ne'er come back again !
In manhood's prime 'tis downright sin To run such odds for life ; Mid countless blanks, to only win A useless, worthless wife ; And when, by fate or fortune blest, Which would indeed be worse, The painted, bauble prize, at best, May prove a splendid curse.
A wife's a pearl of tempting hue, But stormy waves are round it, And dearly will a mortal rue The day when first he found it. If all her locks were gleaming gold, Where gems like dewdrops fall, One passing hour of life, free-souled, Were sweetly worth them all.
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The bird that wings the sunny sky, To greet the rosy morn,- The stag that scales the mountain high, When rings the hunter's horn - When he shall seek the crowded plain, Or birds their prison-cage,
Then I'll be found in Hymen's chain, To bless a future age.
Rev. Silas Ketchum, a successful clergyman and a man of literary attainment, deserves a brief mention in this chapter by virtue of an eight years' pastorate of the Congregational church. Among his published works are : History of the Philomathic Club ; Eulogy on Henry Wilson; Diary of the Invasion of Canada by the American Army in 1775 ; Special Geography of New Hamp- shire ; and Paul on Mars' Hill. Nearly all of these works were published after Mr. Ketchum left Bristol in 1875. At the time of his death, in 1880, he had in preparation histories of the Ketchum and Doty families in America, and an -elaborate Dictionary of New Hampshire Biography.
Mrs. Annie Douglas (Green) Robinson is a writer of much ability under the non de plume of Marian Douglas. She was born in Plymouth Jan. 12, 1842, but when she was a girl, her parents moved to Bristol. Mrs. Robinson has since resided in Bristol, and here she has done all her literary work. She received the greater part of her education in private schools. Mrs. Robinson is the author of the following works : Picture Poems, a volume for young people published in 1873 by J. R. Osgood & Co., Boston, and republished in 1883 by J. M. Brad- ley & Co., Philadelphia ; Peter and Polly, a story of the Revolu- tionary war, published in 1876 by J. R. Osgood & Co .; Poverty Year; or, a Story of Life in New Hampshire in 1816, published by T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York, in 1901 ; and Days We Remember, a tasteful volume of verse just published by the Gorham Press, Boston. All but seven of the poems in this volume had already been published in Harper's Bazar and other periodicals. Her poems have irregularly and infrequently ap- peared in Harper's Bazar, Harper's Weekly and various other magazines and journals, but she is best and most willingly known as a writer of poetry for children. Of the two following poems from her pen, the first, published in Harper's Weekly, is one of the most popular of her writings for children. The Veteran was published a few years ago in Harper's Bazar and is included in Mrs. Robinson's latest volume.
STARTING
They sit upon the barnyard fence,
The baby-swallows in a row: Four little, dusky, silken things, With soft bright eyes, and close-shut wings.
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Their mother flutters to and fro ; The golden-rod is all aglow, The maple shows one scarlet leaf ; The time to stay is growing brief. They must be ready. For their sakes A constant twittering she makes : "Try, try, my downy darlings, try To spread your little wings and fly."
They sit unheeding on the fence, The baby-swallows in a row ; They see no cause for haste at all. They look so innocent and small ! What will befall them when they go? How much they have to learn to know ! All the strange mystery of flight Above the sea in storm and night ; And all its raptures, circling round A sky with sunset roses crowned. What swallow hopes, and fears, and cares, And loves and dangers will be theirs ? But nevermore within the nest They'll feel their mother's sheltering breast. Yet still that mother, for their sakes, This constant, troubled twittering makes ; "Try, try, my downy darlings, try To spread your little wings and fly."
THE VETERAN
Another and another wreath - We deck new graves each spring, And smaller grows the gray-haired band Whose hands the garlands bring. Grave veterans, we follow slow The dull beat of the drum ; There's one brief march before us now, And, Comrades ! we shall come One sleep to share, and o'er each grave, The starry flag we loved shall wave !
We mourn you not ! The days seem far Since side by side we fought, And onward to the meeting place The way is now so short ! Not many May-times shall we hear The summons of the drum ; We wait, with unforgetting hearts, Till comrades ! we shall come One sleep to share, while, o'er each grave, Thank God! the starry flag shall wave !
Josephine Augusta Cass, A. B., writer of dainty and melo- dious verse, was the daughter of Nason W. and Augusta (Shaw) Cass. She was born in Hill, Jan. 15, 1855, and died at the Massachusetts Homeopathic hospital, Boston, Nov. 12, 1889, aged 34 years, 9 months, 27 days.
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When she was eight years old, Miss Cass came to Bristol with her parents, and attended the school in the district where she resided. She was prepared for college at Tilton Seminary, where she was valedictorian of her class. In the fall of 1877, she entered Wellesley College, and completed her course there in 1880, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At Wellesley, she was distinguished for classical and mathematical scholar- ship, no less than for literary gifts. She made a number of hap- py and graceful translations of German songs, some of them at the request of the Beethoven society's director, who approved their quality by use at his concerts. In her Sophomore year, she won the Durant prize for the best German boat-song ; and in her Senior year she was elected, by her class, writer of the fare- well song for the Tree-Day. She pursued a graduate course of two years at Wellesley, assisting in the English department of the college. At the invitation of the trustees, she was poet at the commencement exercises of 1885.
After leaving college, Miss Cass taught at Dana Hall, Bridgeton, N. Y., chief of the Wellesley preparatory schools ; in Illinois University, and in the Meriden, Conn., high school. At the last named place she became involved in a controversy between the school authorities and the Catholic clergy, over the sale of indulgences by the early Catholic church, and she dis- tinguished herself by her knowledge of history. Contrary to the requests of the school committee, she resigned her position at Meriden, being bent on the execution of a cherished project of continuing her historical studies abroad. Accordingly, she sailed for England, and began her studies at Newington College, Cambridge. The English climate, however, proved too harsh for her fragile constitution ; the seeds of consumption were sown, and although the ambitious student completed her year of study at Cambridge, she returned to her native land only to pass through the discipline of a long illness which ended in her death.
Thus the young singer fell by the way, her sweetest music still unsung. Her poems, for the most part modestly published in The Boston Transcript, The Christian Union, The Springfield Republican, and other journals, although some found their way into more distinguished columns, and one won a prize of some magnitude, attracted much quiet notice for their subtle melo- dies, grace of phrase, and intensity of feeling. A child of the hills, nature was from earliest remembrance her refreshment, inspiration, and delight. She was a young woman of splendid traits of character and a poet of rare possibilities.
Of the selections from her work here given, the first received a prize offered by The Sunday Budget, and the last two ap- peared in The Boston Transcript.
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IF LIFE WERE A BANQUET
If Life were a banquet, and Beauty were wine, And Being the cup to contain it, What duty had man save at ease to recline, Drink deeply, and never disdain it ? If Life were a banquet, and Beauty were wine, And Being the cup to contain it !
If Life were a banquet, and Glory were wine, And Pain were the strong bowl that held it, Would any man pause ere he quaffed, or repine At the cost ; though his heart's blood had swelled it? If Life were a banquet, and Glory were wine, And Pain were the strong bowl that held it !
If Life were a banquet, and Love were the wine, And pure lips alone touched the chalice, What soul would refuse for a draught so divine To purge itself wholly from malice? But Life is a banquet, and Love is the wine, And pure lips alone touch the chalice.
IN EXILE
In the hush of the midnight I dream, love, Of a city that lies by the sea ;
Of a lighthouse I catch the red gleam, love, As I pace the dim shore-path with thee.
The waves roll in from afar, love, And call us with voices of power ; The white fire of one solemn star, love, In the clear west shines like a flower.
And the twilight sky broodeth low, love, O'er roof and gable and spire, As Heaven loved the city, and so, love, Were stooping to beckon her higher.
To eastward the moon mounteth slow, love, The blue heaven's invisible stair ; And drops on the dark tide below, love, Her mantle trails, silvery fair.
* *
I wake and find it a dream, love, Sea, moon, star, voice, shining eyes, The red light's long level beam, love, Call of waves and the night-wind's replies.
Those sweet summer nights by the sea, love, Alas! were they dream-phantoms, too ? If I turned from this distance to thee, love, Could I prove their existence anew ?
Do the waves dash high as of old, love, When the great storms buffet them sore? Do the rain-robes the gray cliffs enfold, love, And the wild winds shout to the shore ?
JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS, A. B.
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Should I find the small tower-room again, love, Where we worked through the long, sultry hours ? Does the poplar tree rustle as when, love, I thought it the falling of showers ?
Is there really a city, a home, love, Warm hearts and strong, clasping hands ? Quite alone in my exile I roam, love ;
Strange skies bend o'er the strange lands.
When I'm weary and lonely and sad, love, And nothing seems real but my pain,
At least let me know thou art glad, love, In thy home by the heaven-touching main.
A SUMMER DAY'S DESIRE
'Tis, oh ! to go afloating Adown the rippling stream, The leafy shores unnoting - To float as in a dream !
No friend to sit anear me, No hand the helm to guide ;
But wind and wave to steer me At the will of the idle tide !
With the red sun just a-setting, Behind a wooded hill, With a breeze the tree-tops fretting, And a far-heard whip-poor-will !
Oh ! a truce to pain and pleasure, And one brief hour of rest, In a peace beyond all measure, On the cooling river's breast !
For my heart is hot and weary, With the bliss and the woe of life ;
The field I see not clearly, For the smoke of the constant strife.
One hour of toil's fruition To look at truth aright, Then down from the mount of vision Will I come and join the fight.
Annie Sargent Hammond, daughter of Walter Harris and Serena Lane (Farrington) Sargent, was born in Boscawen, March 21, 1857. She received her education at the Penacook academy and the Elmwood institute, Boscawen. For several subsequent years, she labored as a teacher. She has resided in Bristol about eighteen years.
Mrs. Hammond has published two works in book form. The Rights and Wrongs of Men and Women was published in 1895, by the Enterprise Printing House. Twentieth Century Facts, published by the same house, appeared two years later. Two other productions, The Beautiful and Wrecks of the Beauti-
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ful, and its sequel, The Medium, are now printing at the Scroll Publishing House, Chicago. Mrs. Hammond's poems have ap- peared irregularly in New Hampshire and Massachusetts jour- nals and in various religious papers. Her poetry, as well as her prose, is for the most part religious. We append one of her latest productions.
THE MOTHER OF GOD
The heart of the Mother is beating, I ween, With joy that never was told ; She stands by this world with its broken harp,
In love that never grows cold.
Majestic and gentle the poise of her hand ; Her voice is love's native tone ;
Noblest of women in the fair, far land,
Tho' she mingles, she still moves alone. Not an anguish, not a triumph In which she may not share, For, in the Garden, up the Mountain,
I know she was with Him there. This grand, mysterious Angel Touched the vibrating, quivering strings Of a mystical lyre in the realms above Where Love is the King of Kings ; All celestial voices responded Amoroso, doloroso, and forte bold, In hope to evolve, post humously,
"The half that had never been told "; Tho' constantly, sweetly, the singers sang, They could not end the strain ; And earth and air and the deep still rang For one mute, missing chord in vain ; Then God called on a lone human heart, Lest its pain make it seem proud and cold, But it only gave out a minor part Of the half that had never been told. Next, a new and queenly woman Emerged from the stillness of God, To break up the fallow ground
Where none save angels had trod ; Vet, vain was her eager look For a new thing under the sun ;
Before her the open Book, With truths set one by one.
At last, from mysterious silence, The Mother of Love drew anear ;
And Mary spake to life kindly,
For the sake of Christ, she held dear : -
"The passion of birth by a seraphim wakened, Told all the love story, I ween, When my Baby's form of divinest sweetness In the manger cradle was seen. Youth hopes over much for the morrow, My heart to its past ever clings, While the weary white hand of sorrow, Sweeps over its broken strings. Methinks the lost, melodious chord,
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Will be found on earth, as in Heaven,
When hearts feel anew the touch of that hand
Through which cruel nails were once driven.
Then, in whatever form of spirit
Thy soul shall awaken, and shine,
It will surely bear some likeness
To this Other Soul of mine.
Here, in our home of peace, and rest,
Very near to the crystal sea,
I live with Him I love the best -
My Son - of Galilee.
I've learned to forgive your suffering world -
I, who am Christ's own Mother !
Then, wilt thou not try, through life's little while
To understand, and forgive one another?"
Charles Fletcher Lummis, author, explorer, and editor, although not a native of Bristol, is a Bristol product in that his mother, Harriet (Fowler) Lummis, was a Bristol woman, and in that he himself spent a few years of his childhood in this town. We give him, therefore, a brief space here. Among his best known works are: The Awakening of a Nation (Mexico to-day); The Spanish Pioneers ; Some Strange Corners of Our Country ; A Tramp Across the Continent ; The Man Who Married the Moon (Pueblo Indian Folklore); The King of the Bronchos ; The Goldfish of Gran Chimu (Peru); The Right Hand of the Continent ; The Enchanted Burro ; and Spanish America. Mr. Lummis is now editor of Out West, "a magazine of the old Pacific and the new," published at Los Angeles, Cal.
Prof. Fred Lewis Pattee, A. M., teacher of English and literature, and writer of poetry, history, and criticism, was born in Bristol, Mar. 22, 1863. After improving the meagre school advantages of Bristol and of Alexandria, to which latter town his parents had removed when he was a few years old, he en- tered the office of the Bristol Weekly Enterprise, with no thought of continuing study. At the end of a year, however, he entered the New Hampton Literary institution, from which he was graduated in 1884. The next four years he spent at Dartmouth college, teaching school in New Hampshire and in Maine win- ters, and working summers in hotels as waiter, or on the farm. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1888, with the degree of A. B. Three years later, he received his A. M. in course. At New Hampton he was editor-in-chief of the school publication, The Hamptonia. At Dartmouth he was an editor of The Dart- mouth Literary Monthly, and upon graduation was class poet.
After his graduation from college, Professor Pattee secured a place on The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, having decided to follow journalism as his profession; but on advice of his teacher of literature at Dartmouth, Prof. Chas. F. Richardson, he gave up journalism to devote himself to teaching. He spent the next year as principal of the schools at Eatontown, N. J.,
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and the following year he held a similar position in Mendon, Mass. In the fall of 1890, he assumed the principalship of Coe's Northwood academy, in which position he spent four prosper- ous years. In the fall of 1894, he accepted the chair of English and rhetoric at the Pennsylvania State college, which position he still holds. He spent the summer of 1897 in a bicycle tour of England and Scotland. In the summer of 1901, he edited reading courses in the Booklovers' Library, Philadelphia, and in the college year 1901-2, he was granted a leave of absence of eight months, a greater part of which time he devoted to the study of English and German philology, at the University of Gottingen, Germany.
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