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I have sent in a formal request to the Government of the college to have my term Bill remitted; I don't know whether they have acted upon it or not yet. I have about made up my mind on one thing though, that is that I shall never pay it. $26,25 they charged me in all for last year: $24,00 for the tuition, never received, and three times the usual charge, extra, for the commencement dinner, which is charged in every students term bill. $,50 cts, being $1,50 per year or $6,00 in all for commencement dinner, and then one is never allowed to partake of it, or even look at it until after the graduates, and has done wanting it; though from that time henceforth & forever, or as long as he lives it is to the age of Methusalah, he is entitled to a seat every year at the public dinner on commencement day!!! They also charged me for every term last year the usual charge for old text. Cleaveland's Chemical Lectures which by the way no one is ever allowed to attend until their junior year. However I console myself with the reflection that I shall never pay it at any rate, I can leave college, if they say so, without any very serious violence to my feelings; I mean they shall be no more willing to lose me than I shall be to go. I have not given them my bond, as the law directs; and most certainly never shall until this business of the term bill is satisfactorily adjusted. I have paid $20,00 on my term bill and have got about $6,00 now left by me. I shall get about $7,00, I expect for taking care of the fire in one of the recitation rooms this term, and probably $3,00 or 4,00 for sawing wood in the college yard. On the other hand I must find have some kind of a light coat, a pair of shoes, 'my boots are about gone', and something to wear on my head. The rest of my past term bill besides what I won't pay is about $3,00, the next will be $15, or 18,00 and my board bill which must be paid at beginning of the next term about $12,00, probably. In addition I shall be obliged to have some new books before long, catalogues,/ postage, mending. I want some more furniture much, a desk or some such thing.

   The Societies have held their anniversaries; the Athenaean on the 19th March Oration by Moses Morrill Butler, subject 'Faith' was super excellent, the best thing I have heard I don't know when, if ever, about an hour long!  But no one got tired, or would if longer.  The writer is called by the faculty about  the best orator who was ever here, which, you know is saying considerable, for some of the best writers in the country have graduated here.

The poem was by Charles Phelps Roberts, of Bangor. It was very good, but would not compare with the Oration. I don't think that Roberts has improved as much as he ought since he was at Bangor, he has been too much a rowdy. I should not wonder if I had improved the most since then, considering that I could not write at all then, and he was a good writer. The Peucinian Anniversary was on the 2d of April. Oration by William Lowing Avery of Belfast, Modern History as affected by Intellect & Force. It was pretty good, but not to be compared to Butlers. The Peucinian Pact, George Henry Kingsbury was sick, they waited two or three weeks and then had to procure a substitute. As there was no other senior in the society who 'knew to cultivate the muse! they got Rev. Elijah Kellogg of Harpswell, the sailor Minister, a famous member of the Society, who gave a most splendid poem, very superior, and much admired by all.