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Scholars of the Institute during the Barrett regime.
Members of Delphic Society.
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Charles Ashley, ( son of Carlos C.) : James R. Bowen, (veteran, Rev., author, died 1906) ; * Arthur Barnes, ( short hand institute) : Edward C. Blackford: * Clif- ford Bagley ; #Eugene F. Baldwin. ( veteran, publisher ) : * Frank Baldwin ; Win- slow Buck : Lewis Barnes. (son J. K. B.) : Daniel Baylor ; }Charles Chittenden, (D. D. S., at head of his profession in Wisconsin. died 1900) ; * George Chandler, (graduate of college, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ) : John P. Colby, (graduate of col- lege and LL. D.) : Charles Clough : Lewis Dinger ; * Edwin Ensworth, Dalton, N.
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Y .; tAlbert S. Houghton ; David S. Hatch; * Thomas Lovell, (college, LL. D, Niagara Falls) ; * Joseph Lovell, (merchant and musician, Nunda ) ; Albert Sim Logan, (Indian chief, musician, orator, died 1904) ; Durand Linkletter ; Justus Linkletter ; George D. Martin (veteran) ; James M. McNair ( captain, college, supervisor ) ; #Peter Miller, Mt Morris; Barclay Miller, Mt. Morris (died 1907) ; James Maynard; Luther M. Peck ( son of Jonas) ; * Fletcher C. Peck. (college, lawyer, U. S. Marshal, president of College Club of Nunda) ; Har- rison Peck (postmaster, president of village) ; Alton Peck: * Charles F. Peck, (editor, Commissioner of Labor, European tourist ) ; * Asa E. Page, (commission- er to Chicago Exposition) ; Miles Peterson ; Urial Peterson; Mordecai Roberts ; Leonard H. Seaver, ( died 1907) ; Nelson S. Skinner ( veteran ) ; Sheldon Stur- geon, (West Point colonel ) : Edwin Tuthill, (captain, died 1867) ; George War- ner, (brother to Mrs. O. Page).
Hermogenian Society.
Frank Adams, (lieutenant. N. Y. Dragoons) ; Albert Barnes, (printer, per- ished in the Astabula calamity) ; Chester B. Bowen, (veteran, Texas Rancher, died 1905) ; Fred Britton : * William M. Benson, ( A. M. and Ph. D., Rochester, N. Y.) ; Charles Britton ; * George D. Chidsey; (farmer, Nunda ) ; Francis Chase ; Charles Chase ; ยก Charles P. Davidson ; William Fowler ; Jay Gallentine. (veteran) ; George H. Gibbs : Henry A. Hills (veteran, lieutenant, Hiland. Kansas ) : John F. King, ( father of Mrs. C. E. Pratt) ; -- - Lattimer ; Thomas Lockwood ; Theodore McNair : Darwin Maltby ; James Miner ; Alpheus Manard ; * George M. Osgoodby, (lawyer) ; Edward Page; Frank M. Peck: Samuel Swain; James A. Swain; Henry Skinner ; Oliver Spoor: Arthur Spoor ; James Spoor ; Joseph Spoor; Julian Skinner ; Eugene Skinner: Sylvester Saterlee; Minor T. Stilson ; Hosea Shaw ( veteran. lieutenant ) ; Byron Seelye; Jacob Scott: John Scott : Myron Tuthill ( commercial traveler, took an ice water bath in Chicago and died as the result) ; Henry Waldo: George Waldo; Heber Waldo; * William C. War- ner, (college).
Additional 1855 and 1856, not attending in 1854 and 1855.
Maynard Barker; Walter W. Burton ; E. V. Bellamy, Hunts Hollow ; James Brown; F. Orson Burr; Daniel Bacon, Nunda ; Albert Cleveland (theologue) ; William J. Cosnett ( died in the service ) ; John Canfield, Dansville ; * John Carter, (veteran, see sketch ) ; John Donaldson : William Fowler, Fowlerville; Merritt Galley, (college, inventor), Brooklyn; Sam Geer, New York City; L. D. Guet- son ; * HIusted Green, Nunda : * Orville Guy; Clark M. Herrick; Edward Jones ; *Jackson A. Knight ( colege. district attorney), Arcade, N. Y. : James A. Miner, Allen; Arza Maynard, Rockford, Ill .; Frances B. Myers, Nunda; Caleb Nye, Penfield : H. P. Pierce ; A. Parshal ; S. P. Perry ; Lewis Shepard, ( veteran, died in the service) ; Harvey C. Shepard, (editor ) ; * Henry Wells Spear, (Swain's Mill) ; Nunda ; William Camas, ( veteran) ; A. H. Silsby; Benjamin Sedam; Charles Thomas ; Beebe Turrill: Hall Turrill; John Welch; James Work (college, Rev.), Orkney Islands, Buffalo, N. Y .; Lysander L. Wellman, (college and Rev.).
Primary Department 1855.
So many of the remaider are living we omit marking their names.
Messenger Ashley; Jackson Alward, New York City: Allen Adams. Ceres, Pa .; Myron Baker; * Francis A. Davidson (merchant), Nunda ; * Isaac Justin
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Depuy, (banker), Nunda; George B. Fitch, Oakland, California ; George King, Francis S. King ( sons of B. F. ) : Clement McNair ; * Abe Openheimer ( clothing store) ; William Ricketts ; Russell Frederick, (son of William G.) ; * Samuel Stur- geon, (veteran ). Nunda, N. Y .; Adelbert Skinner ; Eugene Skinner ; Frank R. Swain ; William Jeffries; Franklin Jeffries ; Charles G. Warner ; * Franklin White- head.
Ladies in 1854 and 1855.
Olivia Lovina Bowen ( Mrs. Justus Barker) ; Viola Brown; Mary A. Buck ; Juliette Baldwin; Julia Barker: Catharine Brown; Charlotte Chittenden ; Delia Chase; Isora Dartt; M. Kizzie Dunn; Clarissa Dunning, (married Cornelius Gibbs), Ridge, N. Y. ; Philena Ecker ; Sarah Field; Augusta Fuller, Castile ; Ellen Griffith, Pike : Lucena Greenleaf; Mary Houghton; Ada Hammond, ( Mrs. Prof. Lowell), Niagara Falls : Maria Howell, Brooksgrove; Alethe Kendall, ( Mrs. J. B. Willett, graduated Nunda Literary Institute), Corry, Pa .; Sophia Lattimer : Laura MI. Lattimer ; Adelia C. Lamb ; Kate Marble, New Berlin; Cornelia Mack, Nunda ; Sarah Miller, ( Mrs. Van Etten), Mt. Morris; Harriet Newton ; Mary J. l'aine ; Martha J. Patterson: Minette S. Peck ( Mrs. Sylvanus Ellis) ; Mary Rider ; Arabella Rose, ( Mrs. Jacoks) ; Annie E. Richmond, ( Mrs. William P. Warner ) ; Georgiana W. Richmond, (Mrs. Rathbone ) ; Sarah Rogers; Mary Roberts ; Virginia A. Ripley, Tuscarora ; Gertrude Ripley, Tuscarora; }Nancy J. Rude: Laura A. Swain. Nunda : Maggie Sturgeon. Nunda ; Libbey Sturgeon. Nunda ; Ophelia Skinner, Nunda ; Mary J. Sodderland. Grove ; Julia F. Tuthill ; Nellie Whitcomb ; Louise Whitcomb ; Delira P. Wilcox ; Ellen White ; Minerva S. Waldo.
Some of the Institute scholars in 1857-1858.
William M. Benson : Alvin Waters Tousey ; Albert Haver ; Merritt Galley ; A. Sim Logan ( Indian). Portage : Judson Van Slyke, Portage ; George MI. Lockwood. Portage ; George H. Graham, Portage : James Haver, Portage; Wilbur Haver, Portage ; Hosea Shaw : John Donaldson : Washington Moses ; Alphonzo Aldrich : Edwin Bennett : George Bennett ; Frank Wright, (son of D. Ebenezer ) ; * Charles Davidson ; * Joseph Mosher : I. J. McDuffee; Cyrus Burnap; William C. Hall; Samuel Hall ; Robert Hall : Harrison Peck : Cornelius Kiley ; George Waldo; De- lancey Smith; Vitellus Smith; Jefferson Parker; Arthur J. Barnes; Bernard Wagor : Charles Maker : Carlos G. Lowell ; Daniel D. Lowell; Alvin Peck (died) ; Beebe Turrill : Hall Turrill : James H. Bump; William G. Cosnett ; Philo Mosier ; Charles Lowe : Michael Kelley; Irving Aspinwall : William L. Warner ; Franklin Davidson ; George Briggs : George Martin : Simeon Logan ; L. L. Wellman; Nat- han Stilson : Varins Smith : H. W. Hand.
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Female students.
Sarah Stilson: Susie Barrett: Fannie Maine : Victoria McNair ; Sarah Cos- nett ; Maggie Lemon ; * Emily Gilmore; Delia Wilcox; Mary Paine; Mary Ben- nett ; Ann Bennett : #Elmira Smith : Annie Smith ; Libbie Arnold ; Fanny Andrus ; Martha Howell: Celia Pixley : Carrick: --- Carrick; Mary Willis ; Martha Huggins ; Augusta Ricker; Sabra J. Ricker ; Libbie Ryder : Mary Met- calf : Lucia White: Susan Swain. Cornelia Swain, ( daughters of Alfred) ; Mary Carver : Jennie Harrington : Dell Delano; Ada Hammond : Adelia Kendall ; Fran- vi. Kendall: Maggie Sturgeon: Julia Barker; Sarah Lockwood; Mary Barnes ; Ella Parker, - - Reynolds, Granger ; Fanny Paine ; - Lowell; Helen
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EMILY GILMORE
MARY WILLIS
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A LETTER FOR SOMEBODY -GUESS Phoebe Haines with letter, Sarah L. Stilson, Mary Paine, Delyra Tuthill.
A. JACKSON KNIGHT
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Whitcomb; Helen Warner; Sarah Waldo: Amanda Batterson; Caroline Cain ; Kate Weston; Malinda Reed; Emma Gibbs; Jennie Grover; Harriet Lowell; Melissa Lowell; Mary Stilson; Irene Weaver; Mary Olney; Martha Chidsey; Lucie Chidsey.
The Wisner, Page and State Road School houses, were in exceedingly active operation from 1825 to 1835. all built of logs, and located at four corners. Teach- ers from Portage, Nunda, and Mt. Morris, rule in these, not with rods of iron, but with well seasoned birch rods, leather straps, and wooden rulers, whose primary use was something like that of a King's scepter to enforce respect, and willing ( ?; obedience, and secondarily to aid in making straight lines on unlined writing paper. Sometimes the big boys came at night and put boards on top of the chim- ney, to make it unpleasant for the teacher, when he started his fire in the morn- ing. On one occasion, as reported by Peter Townsend, who was at the time a small boy, Mr. Neweli Boughton, the teacher, concluded to teach on New Year's Day, to make up for a lost day. The big boys conferred together after school, and concluded that the skating was too good on the new Gilbert mill pond, at Cooperville, ( the largest pond of water many of them had ever seen) to be given up, for the paltry pleasures derived from annoying the teacher, a matter of daily occurence, and not to be compared with a first skate. on the new artificial lake ( ?)
At night they assembled, climbed through a window, and with a heavy timber braced against the door, reaching to the platform from the new cast iron stove, all the windows but one were fastened down, and that George Townsend and Clark Brewer, ( brother to Nelson), and some others said they could take care of. The son of the trustee. Mr. Bradley, who built the fires was in the secret, and he was told to build the fires as usual, and let the little children in when they came through the unbarred window, and they would be on hand when the schoolmaster came to take good care of him. At a quarter to nine, the teacher and big boys arrived, the teacher was tugging at the door, and calling lustily to young Bradley to open the door, a sentry was posted in front of the window. The boys informed the teacher that school had been postponed until after "New Year's," he sent one of the smaller boys for the trustee. who quickly arrived. Mr. Hugh Bradley came and ordered his boy to remove the timber, he said he could not, it was too heavy, "get the big girls to help you." "The big boys have told them no to,"-"I'll whip every girl and boy of mine, if they don't help." "The big boys said, there would be trouble if he tried it." The trustee, now thoroughly enraged attempted to get . ito the window, and when midway was seized by big George Townsend and laid on his back and held there. The teacher was advised to remain "neutral" he wisely acquiesced-he did not like to forfeit the good will of George and Uriah Townsend, without whose co-operation, he could not easily govern the school. At length the trustee agreed not to punish his son, and to go home and let the "powers that be," govern without an arbitrator. Mr. Bradley grumbling, a feeble pro- test left the field, in full possession of the rebels. Then George, the spokesman, said to the teacher, "Mr. Boughton. we all like you, and we don't want to do any- thing to break up a good school : but this is a holiday, and we wanted some fun of some kind .- have you any proposition to make?" "Why boys," said the teacher. "if I had known you did not want school to-day-you need not have taken such Measures to secure your holiday. I will leave it to a vote of the boys, whether you have school o-day or not. Are you ready for the question?"
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"I think boys," said George, "that we've had fun enough for one day, and the girls would rather stay, now they are here, than go home. I move we have school to-day, and skate Saturday. Those in favor say 'I, and all said 'I.'" Peace and harmony prevailed the rest of the term, and a rousing party was given at the end of the term at Captain Townsend's "Wayside Inn," in honor of Mr. Newell Boughton, who knew when to be "neutral." The old log school house was used for many years as a dwelling house, and several of our present citizens were born or have lived there. When years afterward the Cooperville school house was built in 1838, and the Carver school house about the same time, the State road school and Wisner and Barron school districts lost about one-third of their scholars, and Cooperville district became a large school. The schools in the eastern part of the town were organized during the twenties, excepting the Schautauqua Hol- low school, which did not exist until about 1830.
The schools in the village. when the village was incorpated in 1839, were on Mill Street. which was superseded by the Union school of 1845, on East Street. The Satterlee school which dates back to 1827 or 1828. and the Gibbs Street school of a later date, were flourishing until their consolidation in a Union school, which also included the Page and Townsend districts. Of this we will speak in conner- tion with our second Union school, with academic department.
SOME WARMED-OVER CHURCH AND SCHOOL HISTORY
After the Nunda Academy had been in existence about five years, and the Nunda Literary Institute about two, it became evident that two academies in Nunda Village could not be sustained. The largest must ultimately prevail.
The Presbyterian school did not feel kindly towards the Baptist Institution that had crowded it to the wall, and the Baptist did not develop any signs of re- pentance for their lack of courtesy.
Nunda with its many superiorities over other villages, has always had a reputation for scrapping not like pugilists,-but like bigots,-who know they are in the right. Now the religious or rather the Sectarian scrapper is the worst kind of a wrangler for he justifies all his acts by the views he holds to be scriptural and true.
And these two giant churches, clenched and struggled, until facetious out- siders smiled and said, see how these Christians "hate." On one occasion a two or three days' discussion was held over the method of baptism. I remember my Methodist parents attended both every night and came away with their pre- vious opinions, unruffled and unchanged, and the rest of the vast audience was probably in the same condition, every Baptist remained a Baptist, and every Pres- byterian was satisfied that their minister's talk, I mean arguments, suited them. Both speakers forgot to speak of the spirit of the act, but of its historic mode of administration.
But in school matters something practical must be done, not to advance edu- cation, but to sustain the newer institution of the part of the Baptists, and to cripple their enterprise by establishing a school so good that it would be unneces- sary to patronize the rival school. And so Union was effected with the District school, the cabinet generously turned over to the school and the classics and every other branch of study taught, at a District school, that academies teach.
This diplomatic manner of changing an Academy to a Union school, would
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have wrought havoc had the free school system then been operative, but when all must pay for the education they were to obtain they naturally would go where the advantages were greatest. So the Institute proved to be the survival of the fittest, and the Union school soon taught only the English branches.
It is gratifying to record, that under the administration of the Institute br H. G. Winslow more toleration prevailed and trustees were chosen from several of the other churches. There was still a little under tone of disquietude even in the later fifties, but all the harsher discords were lost in the general harmony that pre- vailed.
Progress in toleration, is the historic inference to be drawn from this reminis- cence of cloudy days, now resplendent with the sunshine of mutual good will.
A REVIEW OF THE INSTITUTE
The sons of the Pioneers most of them pioneers, furnished the students for this institution. Young men from 18 to 25 saw an opportunity, in the opening of this institution, to do something more congenial to their tastes, than lumbering in winter and tilling stumpy land in summer. The very comforts of better dwell- ings with stoves, instead of fire places. better furniture than slab benches; even improved farm implements, did not reconcile them to the thought of spending their entire lives on the farm. Nearly every other avocation demanded a better education than they possessed. The well equipped district school teacher, and even the sedate but cultured preacher. revealed their deficiencies and inspired ambition. The family physician fresh from the Medical College, with his phy- siological terms, made them feel as if they needed an introduction to themselves and their own anatomy. The "Institute" came to their very doors, and offered them refinement, knowledge, culture. the opportunity of being themselves teachers, lawyers, physicians, clergymen, if they were so inclined. The few years the Nunda Academy had been in existence had given them an intuition of what a few terms of schooling will do where only the advanced scholars are receiving the instruction of the college bred principal. Ambitious parents fostered the aspirations of their ambitious children, and when the Baptist clergyman came round to urge the attendance and patronage of "our" institution, that is going to add a hundred to the congregation what deacon or "pillar" of the church, that did not lean towards this zealous presentment of the subject. Even the verdant hills of Allen, Grove, Granger and Ossian, furnished scholars as well as Portage, Mt. Morris, Castile and Sparta ; and if some were more rustic and verdant, than boys from the villages, these verdant youths knew why they were there, and generally led their classes before they left. to become the future super- visors of their towns, or possibly like "Teller" to find a place in the United States Senate and the Cabinet. Pity that some of the supposed possessors of leek hooks, could not have loaned them to some of the village swells of that day-Sai Crooks, of Grove, left his leek hooks when he entered the law office as a student. or did he exchange them for a sword when he became Colonel of the 8th, and also the 22nd Cavalry? "The King of Ossian" -- Isaac Hampton, supervisor, ( was it for eleven years ), knew well the flavor of wild onions, even in the first academy days. Josephi Weller and his sister were in the early academy lists, as well as at the Albany Normal, in 1846, taught district school a few years and then people wrote "Honorable" and "Governor" before his name,-but then this young man
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took Horace Greeley's advice and "went West." It takes the West to "size up" Nunda men-that were only marked "average" and "ordinary" in this our "colder" latitude, or are we less appreciative where the average is greater ?
Even some of our best teachers, those that the majority have always spoken of with approval and commendation, have been ranked still higher-in other localities.
Prof. Buck left us a broken-hearted man after the tragic death of his talented daughter, Mary. Two colleges divide honors and share degrees on his associate and successor. Rev. Nehemiah Wisner Benedict, A. B., A. M .. D. D., Madison. now Colgate, and Rochester University, both alike bestowing honorary degrees.
Leroy Satterlee, a pioneer of Nunda, assisted by a Mr. Clark was the next principal.
The days of Principal Winslow, are about as well known and appreciated as those of Buck and Benedict. Rival select schools sprang up to minimize the in- fluence of the Institute, and he is said, to have said some very harsh words con- cerning the hostile feeling too prevalent during his administration of the Insti- tute though he did much to lessen it.
Prof. William B. Bunnell, though not a favorite with most of his scholars, was a master in mathematics and the classics, as well as in "Sarcasm" for he it was who "Revised Adams Arithmetic." That was a favorite text book in the "fifties." He tried agriculture in the West, and falling from a load of hay re- ceived fatal injuries. Assistant Principal Clark was author of text books on Grammar, Arithmetic and Algebra.
Solon Otis Thacher, "may his tribe increase" who succeeded Bunnell as Prin- cipal, earned the money in Nunda to complete his College course, and seldom was money better expended. To say this teacher was popular with old and young. patrons and student, is about the general estimate of him here. Had a prophet arisen and told Nundaians that that ex-Alleganian ( Almond), he came from Almond, would become in 1855 an A. B., of Union, this they would not have doubted; but that he should become a member of the New York Assembly, a member of the Kansas Constitutional convention, District Judge, and State Sena- tor of Kansas, this would have been incredible. His going from Nunda, to com- plete his studies, gave us a vacancy, which was filled to an overflow, by the com ing in 1854 of A. Judson Barrett. The majority of the now elderly permanent citizens of Nunda attended the "Old Institute" as it began to be called under the Barrett regime.
He came here fresh from college, Rochester University, and inaugurated classes for graduation. Why there had never been any record before is in- comprehensible-I do not know of one in the whole decade preceding his coming. yet there were those who went from the school to college, in that time-as Syl- vanus Ellis, A. B., Rochester University, and others whose names are on our list of Nunda collegians. Principal Barrett came to stay, and he stayed long enough to do something definite. All, previous to his coming, is to all but a few, hearsay. but from 1854 to 1859 all the young people in the town and vicinity attended this school. Good teachers were employed at the Union school to keep as many as possible there, of the intermediate grade. In age and appearance the scholars of this school appeared more like college men than academy youths.
Future DD.'s, and LL. D.'s, and Ph. D's, were among the instructors and scholars. It was like an embryo college, instead of what it was for the first time,
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a college preparatory school. The impulse "on to Richmond" was not stronger in the early days of the Civil War, than the "on to college," was during these eventful years. Some men 25 years of age commenced studying Latin, and every vear a fine class of graduates found their way, direct from the Institute to some university. Many, like the writer, who had tarried in the district school several years too long, found their mistake, and rushed into the contests trying to atone for this mistake, by doing double the amount of work. It is needless to say this en thusiasm was with those whose opportunities had been most limited. He who had had all the advantages lie cared for did not precipitate brain fever by undue haste, the brilliant ones did not have to, and the others did not care to. Want of funds drove about 50 of the young men each winter into teaching school, and each sum- mer a still larger number of the young ladies sought this employment. Some un- dermined their health by too hard study, and one went through school and college on a diet of crackers, but died a few years afterward; while another died at his boarding house from too close application to study.
A few years after, the majority of the young men went into the army and many rose to positions of honor won by valor, or perished, a sacrifice to their sense of duty and patriotism.
PRINCIPAL BARRETT AT NUNDA
The five years and more that A. Judson Barrett passed in Nunda, marked an eventful era in the lives of at least five hundred men and women, who were taught by him out of the abundance of a well fitted mind and heart, as well as a time of unusual school progress. Reared in a log cabin in Ohio, where pioneer condi- tions prevailed till a later day than in Western New York, inspired by a college bred teacher to be himself a collegian and inspire others, and so became a potent factor of helpfulness to those younger than himself, he was thus fitted by nature, by inclination, by education, to inspire and enthuse those with whom he came in contact. Especially was his early life and surroundings particularly adjusted to ministrations of kindliness towards those from country homes, with rusticity prominent, pronounced and dominant. While the village youth with better oppor- tunities and bred by more refined tastes, but destitute of the essence of genuine refinement, estimated the rustic youth from the hills and the more distant wood- land towns, as inferior to themselves. the teacher, however, judged them by their ability to learn, and their aspirations for mental achievements. He saw no occa- sion to sneer, he saw in them the genuine manhood and womanhood that needed but contact with right conditions to make them as refined in manners as they were vigorous in mind and body.
How East Hill, and Ossian, and Sparta, and Portage, and Grove, Allen and Granger, towns and localities with no large villages and no "High Schools" poured forth their household hopes and treasures-in young men and young women-the best product of their farms, to sit at the feet of this strong young man, and learn of him, what we are in this world-school-house for. Nearly every house sent one or more, to return, more conscious, not of their rusticity, but of their ignorance, and the vast amount of attainable knowledge they could and should possess. Whatever of friction existed between the villagers and the coun- try-bred, became less and less evident, for the teacher's ideals soon became those of the scholars and were not along the line of the external. Though many a kindly suggestion. opportunely given, and many a kindly reproof to the sneering
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