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EDWARD A. HIBBARD, Secy class of 1844.LIFE OF RICHARD FULLERTON, A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 1844.I was born in Covington, Kentucky, June 10, 1861. My father, Charles F. Fullerton, was born in Dover, N. H., October 23, 1818. He was one of four sons of Eugene L. Fullerton, a physician of Dover. My grandfather's ancestors came to America from England, in 1744, and settled in Scituate, Mass. His branch of the family removed to Dover, where he was born July 12, 1783. In 1806 he married Rebecca Allison of Keene, N. H., and lived with her until...
...trial, and we are in hopes good results will follow. The Hemenway system is simple and easy to follow, the only requirements being that each student's physical condition is examined and he is then instructed what method of training to adopt, for, unfortunately, all are not born with equally strong and perfect bodies, and each must pursue a course that is in consonance with his physical and mental peculiarities." The Doctor says that it should be the duty of every teacher to know the condition of his pupils, and in this nineteenth century, with so many large cities...
...popular. Crude in their style and faulty in their execution and showing a hand still untrained, these sketches are full of life and meaning. Every little line of the face conveys some definite idea and is as expressive as the maturer production of later years, showing an in-born talent for portraiture and caricature. From that time forward his methods and execution have steadily improved. His illustrations of Grant's "Little Tin Gods on Wheels" are of as much value as the trilogy itself. For several years after he had graduated from college he continued to draw for the Lampoon...
...generally supposed that the Russians are peculiarly talented as linguists. This is not the case. Although the higher classes of Russians are able to speak two or more languages in addition to their own this arises from the manner of their training rather than from any in-born talent. According to the present system of instruction the study of Latin is far more difficult to the Russian mind than the study of Greek; the literary Russian must necessarily have acquaintance with one or more European languages and the dearth in literati among the Russians results rather from a lack...
...generally known that the now famous author of "Mr. Isaacs", F. Marion Crawford, was formerly a student at Harvard. Mr. Crawford's boyhood was spent in India, though he was born in Italy. Mr. Crawford spent some time in Boston, and enrolled himself a student at Harvard, receiving a diploma in Sanskrit, under Prof. Lanman...