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...autumn of 1872 Professor Hil came here to teach Rhetoric and English Composition. His first year' work was enormous; not only did he have all the juniors and all the sophomores in Rhetoric, and - if I remember rightly - all the sophomores in Themes: but feeling that students needed more practice in writing than the college provided for them, he took upon himself the criticism of two extra sets of sophomore themes. From that time to this, Professor Hill has been steadily working to build up an English Department; and although obliged to give most of his strength to Composition...