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Webster's advantages of early education were exceedingly slender, for he worked on his father's farm in summer and went to school only in winter. The principal district school that he attended was three miles from his home and his pathway there was often through deep snows. When fourteen years old he spent a few months at Phillips academy, Exeter, under the bunion of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mastered the principles and philosophy of the English grammar in less than four months, when he immediately commenced the study of the Latin language, and his first lessons in that study...
...some what prophetic of his future. His English translation of the dialogue gives the following as the reply with which he concluded: "You may both despise my profession, but I will yet pursue it. Demosthenes and Pericles, examples of former days, will be like stars to point out the pathway to glory, and their glory will always be the object of my desire...
...there is such a constant stream of travel from the gymnasium to Jarvis field, more care should not be taken for the safety and convenience of such persons who are at present beset by dangers above and below. We sincerely trust that the authorities will at least keep the pathway clear of obstacles and then we may possibly get used in course of time to an occasional avalanche from the upper regions of the laboratory...
...Then Legendre, represented by a wooden skeleton, attired only in a red flannel shirt, was ignominiously hauled to his doom in a brick cart, in which rode his executioners. After him marched the triumphant sophomores in a band fifty strong, bearing torches and Roman candles, and thus making their pathway glorious. After the conquerors marched the invited guests from the other classes of Columbia, presenting an imposing appearance in their long white gowns and high hats, as if they were householders fleeing from a burning city in their night dresses...
...Cambridge letter to the Providence Journal says: "It is a long, steep pathway to the beetling heights of Cambridge culture, but once there, the air is deliciously cool and fresh, the view superb, and the opportunity to look down upon one's fellow-men not only unparalleled but irresistible." The same letter intimates that in Cambridge society Harvard students are regarded as cyphers...