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Classes here. I take them out and put them themselves, and then pound let them go to suit their selves - I have had occasion to do so but once and it was not long before the same scholars wished to go back into the class to let them do so and since then they carry their end [sic] well-- Hornbrook certainly, when I left him was there terms study ahead many students that I have here in the Eng Branches over had just begun the Languages -- They now are one term ahead of him in the Eng Branch and at the rate he has gone in the languages he cannot be where they are in the class and [some?] of them are young Ladies -- s o you say that mine have not not gone thoroughly? My dear sir they will repeat the Grammar & parse their lessons nearly as actively [sp?] as I can --Perhaps you will say that I have Brave Scholars & that you are not as smart! My Students are no better than thousands of others -- Yet I learned them fewer than start to get lessons and then well & long lessons and now they get them as easily as they would by the other Course of teaching, a half dosen [sic.] lives-- I have no faith in that mode of teaching that re- gives two or three years to fit a student for College -- I know nothing of your mode of teaching the Languages. I only [illegible - ] from what Hornbrook tells, one of his progress, & he thinks he is doing well in the Class with some students that had studied Latin there, when I was there, that it is an easy matter to account for his progress. I conclude from what the [illegible] of it & was nearly ready to take Caesar. My Class has read the Reader Vici however. Sollast [?] Cicero and will finish Virgil this Quarter, & all of them Cover A[d]vanced Latin Since I come [sic.] here is besides their daily Exercise in Parsing& ct & S [illegible] Grammar, they have been nearly through Anthons [sic.] Latin