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| classes her. I take them out and put them by
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| themselves, and then pound let them go to suit them- | | themselves, and then pound let them go to suit their |
| selves - I have had occasion to do so but once and | | selves - I have had occasion to do so but once and |
| it was not long before the same scholars wished | | it was not long before the same scholars wished |
| to go back into the class & let them do so and | | to go back into |
| since then they carry their end well - Hornbrook
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| certainly when I left him was three times [illegible] ahead
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| many students that I have here in the Eng Branches
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| and had just begun the Languages - They now are one turn
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| ahead of him in the Eng. Branch and at the [illegible] he
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| has gone in the languages he cannot be where they are
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| in the Languages in a year and one half - I have
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| 15 in the class and 5 of them are young Ladies -
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| so you say that mine have not gone thoroughly &
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| My dear sir they will repeat the Grammar & [illegible]
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| lessons nearly as [awfully?] as I can - Perhaps you will
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| say that I have brave scholars & that yours are
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| not as smart! My students are no better than
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| thousands of others - Yet I learned them from the
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| start to get lessons and get them well & long
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| lessons and now they get them as easily as they would
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| by the other course of teaching, a half dozen lives -
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| I have no faith in that mode of teaching that re-
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| quires two or three years to fit a student for
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| college - I know nothing of your mode of teaching
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| the Languages. I only [illegible] from what Hornbrook
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| tells me of his progress & he thinks he is doing well
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| so that I am satisfied. Yet I know that if he has been
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| in the class with some students that had studied Latin
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| [illegible], when I was there, that it is an easy matter to
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| account for his progress. I conclude from what he
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| said that he had read the [illegible] &
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| most of it & was nearly ready to take Caesar, my class
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| has read the [illegible], [illegible], Cicero, and
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| will finish Virgil this Quarter, & all of them com-
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| menced Latin since I came here besides their daily
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| exercise in [illegible] &c &c & S [illegible] Grammar, they have
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| been nearly through Anthony Latin prose Composition
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| They are like M. L. S & John - He did the same at M. in less
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| time- don't take this as fool finding; I don't mean it as such, but
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| I wish to know if all your students are like A. B. [Regnier]?
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| Your Brother P. R. Kendall
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