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Miss Jane MeKill, also had a select school mostly young misses, in the upper room of the twin house, State Street. Mary and Victoria Whitcomb, Laura Grover, daughter of Daniel. Miss Elizabeth Rechard, were among those who at- tended the school, and some good little boys, George and William Osgoo Loy. were
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also in attendance. She married Robert Carrick. Henry Chaulker, probably utilized his law office for a school of young gentlemen, and Uriah, William and John Townsend were among the scholars.
Miss Martha Lake ( Johnson), had a primary school in the Session House building, after it was no longer used as an academy.
The Medical class of Dr. C. C. Chafee about 1841, was a sort of Medical Col- lege, while it lasted, but became very unpopular in the community, so much so that even the dead "rose up," probably in protest of having their sleep disturbed by the undergraduates. At any rate, the living denizens of the village protested. So the young "Medics" went to college, and the dotcor removed from Nunda.
In later days the select schools were taught for juveniles, excepting a few of High School rank, that took the place of academic instruction, between the years 1860 and 1867. That will be mentioned later.
The Juvenile select schools were taught by Miss Jane Adams, Miss Jennie Grover, Miss Mary Willis, Miss Mary Stilson.
The writing schools of Andrew J. Russell, were well attended. John W Hand and Cornelius Kiley became expert penmen and writing teachers. The former taught Mathematics, Penmanship and Bookkeeping, at the Genesee Valley Seminary, Belfast.
At least a dozen singing school teachers had schools that were well attended. Bard. Chittenden, Spafford. Brooks, Burger, George W. Snyder, and the last was most successful.
Miss Rose Shave, at one time principal of the art department of Ingham Uni- versity has had and still has classes in painting.
Leslie Dailey, teaches China decorations, and is an expert at his calling.
CHAPTER V.
A CHAPTER OF OVERLOOKED AND UNRECORDED HISTORY-OUR FIRST ACADEMY.
N OT one person out of one hundred, including the posterity of Presbyterian ancestors, knows the origin and purpose, for which the old Session House of that church was built. Not one of the historical sketches that have eminated from that source, or any other, has ever alluded to its origin.
Rev. Wales Tileston, A. B., Union College, 1822, pastor of the church from the fall of 1837, induced the people to build an Academy on their church grounds, and in 1838 it was built. As there was no newspaper in the newly incorporated village at that time there are no records of instructors, or pupils, until 1841, when the Genesee Valley Recorder in September of that year makes the announcement for that year. It is known however, that a Mr. Edwards was principal of the school, and a Miss Wing, sister to Galielmus Wing, was preceptress, with local assistants, if any were needed. Mr. Edwards had a desire to enter the ministry and even to be a missionary, and did not make teaching his first purpose. The school was a necessity and was patronized by those who had outgrown a necessity for district school instruction, or who found the cramped conditions on Mill Street, alike undesirable and unendurable. The school was not large at first, and the austere ways of the embryo missionary did not create enthusiasm. His name and
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the locality from which Rev. Tileston came, suggests he had selected this friend from Puritan New England, Heath, Mass., and if he was not a descendant of Jonathan Edwards, his theology at least was closely related. He failed to induce any of the young ladies to change from the developing of their own minds to the possibility of making negroes or Hindus think as the missionary thinks, and so he departed alone.
Mr. Edwards' Successor
Principal S. A. Clemmons, A. M., succeeded him, with Mrs. Clemmons as preceptress.
These teachers were more successful in building up a school and realized their work was important as teachers. They have left behind a list of students, every one of them pioneer youths of the town and vicinity, some of them were young boys, others fitting for teachers, or for college, those bearing this mark before their names * are known to be living, all of these are at least octogenarians.
Faculty of Nunda Academy, Term Ending April 1, 1842
S. A. Clemmons ( Yale ), principal, teacher of Language and Natural Science. Clarke B. Adams, teacher of English Department.
Miss Jane D. Barnes, teacher of Mathematics, Drawing, etc.
John S. Jemison, teacher of Penmanship.
Mrs. Clemmons, preceptress.
Miss Flora Bennett. Harriet Hudnut, Miss H. E. T. Wright, A. Frink Williams.
Miss H. E. T. Wright ( a Baptist). became a missionary to Burmah.
Students in Our First Academy, Church Street, 1840-1841
Benjamin P. Vancourt, A. Jackson Sherwood, George H. Bagley, John Ditto, W. Parker Wright, Elihu D. Holmes. William Dunn. L. Bissell Hills Warren Gardner, P. Dudley Kendrick, Theodore Horton, Richard Tyleston, Riley Merrill, Jr .. Phineous L. Gilbert. Frederick B. Wing. Edward H. Chandler, John L. Gray, William M. Gray, Ralston H. Bellus, Charles Bellus, Matthew Washburn, Martin Hubbell, Knelon A. Jeffries, Elnathan W. Packard, John Or- mandson, Newton Colby, Oliver P. Ashley, Vandalia Waite, M. D., John Brewer, John Wheeler, S. Deak, C. J. Deak, died 1908, Cyrus T. Dake. Mt. Morris, Edwin Swan, Mt. Morris ; from Portage, 1841 : Henry Tuthill, Yates Bennett, died 1906, William Tousey, deceased, Andrew Gray, Orville Root, Harlow Orcutt, Joseph Clark Button, Nathaniel B. Nichols, Jr., W. Sparta, Egbert Bogart, John Thomp- son, Jacob Bogart. David R. Vorees, William T. Spinning, Granger, John McLane. Birdsall, Cyrus Thompson, Upper Canada, Lyman Crosby, Catharine Vancourt, *Matilda Sherwood, (Mrs. W. G. Russell, Binghamton ), Rhoda M. Smith, Delic. and Mary Bagley, Amelia Crane, *Sarah A. Barnes, ( Mrs. A. G. Rose), Amanda Horner, Sarah A. Wright, Mary Pennell, ( daughter of Rev. A. P. Pennell), Eller: and Elizabeth Whitney, Garifilia Waite, Harriet Hudnut, ( Mrs. Leroy Satterlee ). Mary Ennis, Sarah Dickinson, Mandana Tyleston, Elizabeth Tyleston, Esther M. Gilbert, (Mrs. P. D. Kendrick), Elizabeth S. Lane, Granger, Ebey V. Bogart, West Sparta, Janette and Adeline Bellus, Nunda, Martha L. Washburn, Nunda : Portage: Mary and Esther Williams, Flora Bennett, died 1900. Cynthia and Mary Spencer, Louisa Button, Harriet N. Carpenter, Margaret C. Howell, Brooks Grove, Sarah M. Dake. Mt. Morris, Elsie Voorees, West Sparta, Elizabeth Camp- bell, W. Sparta, Ebey Bogart, W. Sparta.
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Nunda Academy Advertisement, November 1, 1841
S. A. Clemmons, principal.
This institution is now in successful operation with a larger number of pupils, than at any former period. To meet the increasing patronage, additional accom- modations have been provided in the academy building, which will permit us to re- ceive thirty or forty more students.
Unremitting exertions are pledged on the part of the principal and assistants in their efforts to make this institution merit the high estimation of the public. Additional assistance has been recently procured and requisite facilities for in- struction can be afforded in almost any branch of Academic Education.
Nunda Academy, November 1, 1841.
S. A. CLEMMONS, Principal.
Pioneer Students of the First Nunda Academy
Mary Alward, Portage ; Harriet Alward, Portage; Sarah Alvard, ( Mrs. A. J. S. Sherwood), Mt. Morris; Amanda Alvord, Mt. Morris; Elizabeth Barnes, Nunda ; * Sarah A. Barnes, ( Rose ) ; Clarissa Blanchard, Lyons, Mich .; Alexina Blanchard, Lyons, Mich. ; Flora Bennett, ( life teacher ), Portage; Elmira Bennett. (Orsimus Bisbee), Nunda ; Mary J. Bogart, Nunda ; Elizabeth V. Bogart, Nunda ; Olive Buck, Nunda ; Elizabeth Barrett, Nunda ; Martha Barrett, Nunda ; Jeannette Bellus, Nunda ; Adelaide Bellus, Nunda ; Lydia A. Blake, Scottsburg ; Ann Burn- ham, Scottsburg; Mary Bagley, Nunda; Isabella Brown, Mt. Morris; Lydia B. Campbell, Nunda ; Melissa Carrier, Nunda; Almira Chase, ( Merrick), Nunda ; *M. Jane Craig, ( Bowhall), Nunda ; H. S. Doty. Lockport; Lucy A. Daniels, Nunda ; Elizabeth Dalrymple, Mt. Morris; Eliza Engle, Portage; Mary Engle, Portage; Clarissa Gray, Caledonia ; Elizabeth Gray, Caledonia ; Angelina Gawyer, Scottsville; Jane Gibbs, Nunda; Mary A. Greenleaf, Nunda ; Esther L. Gilbert, Nunda; Harriet Hudnut, Nunda; Sarah Hudnut, Nunda; Amanda Horner, Nunda ; Letetia Horner, Nunda ; Sarah J. Howd, Nunda; Angelica C. Henry, Allen ; Juliana Henry, Allen; Elizabeth Horton, Nunda; Sylvia A. Lawrence, Nunda; Nancy Lawrence, Nunda; Olive Miller, Mt. Morris; Louisa More, Nunda ; Amelia Merrill, Nunda ; Emeline Merrill. Nunda : Salome Merrill, Nunda : Angelina Nourse, Castile; Susan A. Osgoodby, Nunda ; Mary Pennell, Nunda ; Isabella Pennell, Nunda : Mary J. Prescott, Nunda ; Rachel E. Page, Huldah M. Robinson, (Spencer), Portage; Charlotte Robinson, (Southwick), Portage; Eliza Rockefellow, (Olp), Mt. Morris ; Rhoda M. Smith, Nunda ; Delia Spencer, L. A. Shepard, Mt. Morris ; Louisa Shuart. Portageville : Margaret Sherwood, ( Bur- nett ). Nunda ; * Matilda Sherwood. ( Russell), Nunda ; Charlotte Smith, Nunda : Fannie Seaver, Nunda; Martha Smith, Nunda; Eliza Spinning, Sparta; Mary Spencer, Portage; Cynthia Spencer, Portage; Anna Smith, Portage; Louisa Tabor, Portage; Agnes Tuthill, Portage; Charlotte Tuthill. Portage; Elizabeth Tileston, Nunda ; Hannah Vancourt, Nunda; Elsy Voorhies, Sparta; H. E. T. Wright, (Stetson), Nunda ; Elizabeth Wright, Nunda : #Sarah A. Wright, (Smith) ; Mary Wright, Geneseo: Sarah D. Whetmore. Nunda ; Elizabeth Whit- ney, Nunda ; Rebecca Wilcox, Nunda ; Garifilia Waite, Martha L. Washburn. Cornelia Whitney, Ellen Whitney, Sarah Weller, Mt. Morris; * Mary Williams, Portage ; Esther Williams, Portage: H. M. Wilner, Portage : Mary Whitcomb. Nunda ; Victoria Whitcomb, Colby.
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Female Department, Nunda Academy, 1843-1844
F. B. Adams, Nunda ; H. F. Armstrong, Dorset, Vt .; A. E. Atwood, Nunda : M. A. Ainsworth, Nunda ; S. A. Ainsworth, Nunda ; Emily Bailey, Nunda ; Laura Barnes, Nunda : Mary F. Barnes, Nunda : Julia Bell, Nunda ; * Augusta Bennett, ( Herrick) ; Amelia Bollsford, Grove: Emily Bradford, Nunda ; Ann Bradford. Nunda ; Arabella Bradford, Nunda : Elizabeth Bradford, Nunda ; Delia A. Brooks, Nunda ; Elizabeth Brooks, Nunda : Lucy Brooks, Nunda ; L. P. Briggs, Nunda ; Imogene Burgess, Nunda : Emma L. Chaffee, Nunda ; Sarah Chase, Nunda ; Flora, Ella and Roselle Chittenden, Nunda ; MI. lane Church, Portage ; Caroline Conkey, Mt. Morris; Sarah Jane Cosnett, Nunda ; Emily and Isora Dartt, Nunda ; Emma Ditto, Nunda ; Mary Diamond. Nunda : Lydia Dye, Nunda : Eunice Grover. Nun- da ; * Laura Grover. Nunda : Rachel Gregory, Sparta ; Isabella Hammond, Nunda ; *Adelaide Hammond, Nunda : Mary S. Holmes, M. C. Howell, Mt. Morris : Sarah and Henrietta Horton. Cordelia Keyser, Rebecca Kennedy, Burns ; Helen M. Lawrence, Nunda ; Ann Marsh, Cayuga : H. N. Marsh, Nunda ; Eunice Marsh. E. A. McKane, Nunda ; Julia McKane, Nunda : Celuria Merrill, R. A. Mosher, MIt. Morris ; Marian Pierce, Mt. Morris; Martha Purchase, Sparta ; Catharine Ruger, Nunda ; Martha, and Julia Scott. Allen ; E. A. and Eveline Scott, Nunda ; Mary E. Spencer, Nunda ; Jane Smith, Nunda ; Louisa Strong, Nunda ; Mandana Tileston, Nunda ; Sarah E. Town, Nunda ; Caroline Vancourt, Nunda ; Mary Van Scoter, Burns ; * Lucinda Warren, ( B. Lee ), Nunda ; * Sophia Whitcomb, Livena Whiting. Pennsylvania ; Charlotte Wood. Nunda.
Male Depart. Nunda Academy, 1843-1844. * Milton Hills, Nunda ; Lathrop Hills, Nunda ; * Henry A. Hills, Nunda ; Elijah Horton, Nunda ; Franklin Kysor, Sparta ; J. J. Kysor, Sparta : R. R. Kinney, Sparta ; John King, Nunda ; * Charles King, Nunda ; Henry King, Nunda ; Franklin L. Lake, Portage : G. B. Lawrence, Nunda ; D. C. Leach, Nunda : J. E. Marsh, Nunda ; B. F. Parmenter, Springville ; James Reid, Nunda ; Vandalia Slater. Portage ; Simon Scott, Allen; Hiram Scott, Allen ; William Scott, Allen ; * Charles L. Spencer, Nunda ; Edwin Strong, Nunda ; William Strong, Nunda ; Charles Terry, Nunda ; O. Willard, Grove ; Orren Wil- liams, Centerville ; A. Frink Wiliams, Portage.
After the exodus of this missionary, the school was left in charge of Miss Cochran, and a young man of excellent spirit by the name of Maynard, and it con- tinued in existence a year longer.
Mr. Maynard, however, who was an earnest Christian and a good Presby- terian, while on his summer vacation attended a gathering of the Synod, and an earnest appeal being made for well educated young men to enter the Foreign Mis- sionary field, his plans for life were changed, excepting, that he had long planned a visit to the Alps. He proceeded to carry out this plan, but was taken sick and died in Italy. The school was then merged with the Union school on East Street. that for a year or more after this kept up a hearty rivalry with the Nunda Literary Institution, both in curriculum and in numerical strength.
This marvellous story of successive teachers entering the ministry and the missionary field can hardly be equalled in any school of the land. It is evident that the vocation of the teacher was underrated in those days, while that of the clergyman exceeded greatly the estimates of the present time.
As these teachers will again be mentioned in our list of Missionaries, who have lived in Nunda. we will leave them for the present.
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The school came into being when it was greatly needed. The building proved of great value to the church, for a session house, and it has fostered other schools and served as a temporary home for the Methodist Church and numerous select schools have held their sessions there, until an Academy was built on Mill Street.
The building has been moved to Fair Street, and a fine parsonage has taken its place, and it now serves as a dwelling house and barn. It cost when first built $800, and it has been of far greater value to the village than to the church that built it. May the good intentions of the builders be recognized, appreciated and placed to their credit.
The Cochran Regime
The school reached the acme of its sucecss under Principal J. G. Cochran, and his sister, Miss M. R. Cochran.
The Faculty indicate a large and energetic institution, even a primary depart- ment swells the numbers and indicate at least a numerical success. Some of these assistant teachers taught in 1843, others in 1844.
Principal, J. G. Cochran ; associate. Miss Dorcas Bell; preceptress, M. R. Cochran ; assistant preceptress, Miss Sarah A. Lake; primary, Miss Plum; John J. Rockefellow. teacher, English Department ; Lecturer, Anatomy and Physiology, Dr. C. Clifford Chafee, A. B., and assistant pupils B. F. Parmalee, Amelia Merrill.
This school would have been eminently successful under this corps of instruc- tors, but either the atmosphere of Nunda, bred a desire in the hearts of all educa- tors that were called here as instructors, to seek a foreign shore, where souls were farther away from truth and God, or the retiring principal, or the clergyman of the church chose, the new principal for his piety, rather than for his ability to teach, and the Nunda Academy was wrecked on the rocks of Missionary zeal. In this instance a good teacher did not become a poor missionary, but one who met with marvellous success and "worked for humanity," as well as for "creed and theology," and left a son and successor whose achievements as a civilizer reached the climax of success. His school, however, is our present subject, but in the missionary part of this book will be given the story of a great missionary's greater Son.
Before giving the names of the students that attended the Nunda Academy in 1842 to 1844, we will tell the story that George Ditto, a pupil of the primary department of this school (and to whom I am indebted for the information) told me.
Miss Dorcas Bell came with the Ditto family to Nunda as the governess of the Ditto children, John. George and Emma. The great losses attending the stop- ping of work on the Genesee Valley canal in 1841, left the family with more ac- counts against the contractors, than the contractors had money to pay for, and so the governess became a teacher in this school. She afterwards became Mrs. Lorenzo Brooks. Principal Cochran married Miss Plum, the teacher in the primary department, and they became Missionaries in the Orient.
The Faculty of this school seems to have changed after the marriage of Miss Bell. And we find the following list of instructors: J. G. Cochran. A. B. : John J. Rockefellow, English Department : Sarah A. Lake, assistant teacher of English : Miss M. R. Cochran, teacher French and drawing : assistant pupils, B. F. Parmen- ter of Springville ; Miss Amelia A. Merrill of Nunda.
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Note .- It is germain to call attention, at this time to the fact that there were now two academies in Nunda, and Prof. Buck, had also since 1843, been taking to their own place, the Baptists, and others, who were attracted by his reputation to the newer and larger school.
Pupils in Attendance in 1842-3, Additional to Those Before Mentioned
G. W. Adams, Ohio; Edwin C. Allen, Portage; Andrew Barber, ( lawyer), Portage ; Charles B. Bagley, *Lester P. Barnes, Benjamin Bailey, William P. Ben- nett, Burns ; Charles H. Bixby, Nunda; Charles Brooks, Chelles Brooks, A. G. Brooks, L. M. Brooks, J. B. Bradley, Springville; Henry B. Britton, Portage ; Halbert Buck, Nunda ; Erastus Buck, Nunda; Austin Burpee, Nunda ; R. S. Camp- bell, Scottsburg: Edward G. Chipman, Nunda ; William George Cosnett, Nunda : D. H. Cochran, Springville; William De Camp, MI. D., *George Ditto, Nunda ; Lewis L. Ditto. Nunda ; Arnold Eastwood. Nunda; Charles A. Gilbert, Nunda ; Nathan Gould, Nunda ; Leroy Gould. Nunda ; Horace Gregory, Sparta; Cameron Hartman, Sparta ; Le Rue Hale, Sparta.
At two exhibitions given April 13 and 14, 1843, the following ladies and gentlemen took part :
S. F. Hills, J. Bogart, J. Thompson, T. Atwood, W. P. Wright, E. D. Holmes, H. B. Carver, R. S. Campbell, D. H. Cochran, F. D. Lake, N. F. Williams, G. J. Adanıs, W. A. Dunn, Riley M. Merrill, F. P. Kennedy, J. G. Briggs, A. F. Wil- liams, L. B. Hills, J. J. Rockefellow, G. J. Adams, J. L. Williams E. H. Chandler, J. Ditto.
M. Jane Church, Mary Williams, Miss Esther Williams, Miss A. Merrill, M. J. Bogart, N. Lawrence, S. A. Lawrence.
Note .- The original colloquy, "The Indian Captive," written by M. Jane Church formed a part of the programme. Also one of her poems, "The May Flower," was recited by L. B. Hills. The talent of these advanced students would surprise some of the graduates of our day most of them, however, were older than the average graduates now.
It must be gratifying to the children and grandchildren of those who were the leading pupils, for their day of this the first of Nunda's academies, to see their ancestors as they were in youth, not in their full maturity, but grasping for treasures of mind attainable.
The motto of 1845 tells the story,
"Not as though we had already attained."
The last exhibition of the Nunda Academy, six students wrote (or served as a committee of publication ), a pamphlet periodical, and it was published by J. T. Norton, Mt. Morris.
The committee were: R. M. Merrill, Seth E. Hills, C. H. Gilbert, Miss A. A. Merrill, Miss N. C. Lawrence and Miss Janette T. Amsden.
After a modest editorial, the articles that followed would indicate the peculiar style of those days when sentiment and song were present in all prose essays. "The Widow's Son," by C., evidently Charles H. Gilbert, the father of Harry and Carrie Gilbert, a fine paraphrase of the Gospel narrative, has a double patlios to one who knew them all. Charles and his gentle wife, Eliza Day, both of whom died so early in life, and Carrie and Harry, who did not live as long. As the all-
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thor purposes to give Miss Carrie's graduating essay, he thinks it will be inter- esting to trace similarity of style, changed by the different standards of a later time.
THE WIDOW'S SON
"Silence reigns in a lone apartment in the city of N -. A noble youth lies sleeping. O'er his body a burning fever rages. and yet he sleeps a happy sleep. On Fancy's airy wing his roving mind soars away from earth to heaven. With angels crowned with light, he kneels before the throne, and with "etherial fingers sweeps the golden strings, which makes the melody of heavens abode."
"He wakes to find himself still on earth, while by his couch his loving parent weeps. Mother, the damps of death are on my brow, but do not weep when I am gone. I hasten to a happier home. I would not longer stay. Hark, dost not thou hear, the rich strains of music, that strike my listening ear ?
"Mother I go, but I will come again, and when thou too shall leave this vale of tears, I'll watch beside thy bed and bear thy spirit hence to Heaven.
"There's music on the midnight air, a requiem sad and slow is chanted o'er the bier of a loved one gone.
"O sad the thought that one so young should die. and lay him down in the empty tomb to rest, while fairy visions still were his and hope was dancing joy dreams in his breast. Could prayer have saved him he would have still remained. He has joined the choirs of pure ones in the happy land.
"The mother weeps beside his sable bier. 'Tis hard to part from what is life- less now. But lo! Jesus approaches and bids her cease to weep. He lays the sable, pall-cloth back, he lifts the head in silence resting and he who slept awoke."
This is hardly a type of the others. It is unusual for men, unless they are of poetic nature, or very near the bounds of the unknown, to write like school girls, but men are not alike, and some are admonished in many ways of lie's uncertainty.
One other selection signed V., bears the more natural type of woman's seuti- ment. She has dared to write of one, whose name is above every name. In her peroration she exclaims.
"He comes to earth its Redeemer, a King without the ensigns of royalty. a Conqueror without an avenging sword, or the brilliant trophies, which swell the victor's triumph. He becomes a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. For thee, O. earth, he weeps, for thee He prays, when dewy mountains and the pale stars alone behold him, he bids the sleeping arise, and those in chains of dark- ness bound, gaze upon a new world of light and beauty. He heals thy soul, a pil- grim for many long years, ever laboring to hasten the dawn of salvation's sun, and when his day has come, for thee, O man, he dies!"
THE EXHIBITION
"Character of Schiller," Erastus Buck, Jr.
"Literature a means of perpetuating a Nation's Glory," John S. King.
"When is the time to die," Miss M. A. Stowe.
"The Voices of Angels," Miss E. Bradford.
Colloquy, "The Chances of Law," ( written by Briggs, Chandler and Gilbert ).
Judge. Latham Coffin : Squire Bragge, G. H. Briggs ; Fitzgerald, Esq .. E. H. Chandler : Plaintiff. S E. Hills : Defendant. C. H. Gilbert : witnesses.
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Colloquy, by Merrill and Ditto.
Transcendentalist, R. M. Merril ; Fourierist, J. A. Ditto ; Hypochondriac, S. E. Hills ; Mnemonician, C. H. Gilbert ; Limb of the Law, J. V. Townsend.
IO. Oration-"Melancholy of Genius" G. H. Briggs
II. Oration-"Permanence of Our Institutions" J. A. Ditto
12. Responses-"The Patriot's Gore" Miss S. L. Merrill
"The Tear of Sympathy" Miss L. A. Horner
13. Colloquy-"Popular Education"
By Hills and Ditto Prof. Von Dunderhonsen, S. E. Hills; Squire Quibble, L. Coffin; Dea Par- ticular, A. Barber ; Doct. Killman. R. M. Merrill, inspectors.
Students, etc. Music.
14. Oration-"The Superiority of a Symmetric Education". .. . E. H. Chandler Miss A. A. Merrill, Miss J. D. Amsden
15. Dispute-"Is this a Superficial Age?" S. E. Hills, Latham Coffin
16. Discussion-"Is Astronomy as Rich in the Poetic Element as Geology?"
. Miss A. A. Merrill, Miss J. D. Amsden
17. Colloquy-"Midsummer's Night's Dream," (altered from Shakespeare) Peter Quince, R. M. Merrill, Nick Bottom, Andrew Barber, Francis Flute, J. H. Ditto, Simon Strung, William Nash, moonshine.
Music.
18. "The Genius of Literature". R. M. Merrill
19. Oration-"Fame-Its Price" A. Barber Prayer.
EXCELSIOR-NUNDA ACADEMY, 1845 By S.
"Oh! onward youth ! grasp deathless flowers Of genius for thy brow
And call a wreath in learning's bower To deck thy young mind now ; Away ! stop not 'mid things of earth, Indulge in visions high,
Enlarge thy thoughts of lofty birth, Seek things that cannot die."
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CHAPTER VI.
OUR OLD UNION SCHOOL HOUSE, EAST STREET, AND HOW IT CAME TO BE BUILT THERE.
Special meeting of District No. 2, held December 23, 1844, at 6 P. M. Merritt Colby presided and William D. Hammond served as clerk.
At this meeting it was, Resolved by a majority of voters present, that it is ex- pedient to purchase a new site and build a new school house.
2. Resolved, That the trustees of this district, examine the most eligible site for a new school house. ascertain the cost of lot, plan of a building and the cost of building according to that plan.
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