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classes her. I take them out and put them by themselves, and then pound let them go to suit them- 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 & let them do so and since then they carry their end well - Hornbrook certainly when I left him was three times [illegible] ahead many students that I have here in the Eng Branches and had just begun the Languages - They now are one turn ahead of him in the Eng. Branch and at the [illegible] he has gone in the languages he cannot be where they are in the Languages in a year and one half - I have 15 in the class and 5 of them are young Ladies - so you say that mine have not gone thoroughly & My dear sir they will repeat the Grammar & [illegible] lessons nearly as [awfully?] as I can - Perhaps you will say that I have brave scholars & that yours are not as smart! My students are no better than thousands of others - Yet I learned them from the start to get lessons and get them well & long lessons and now they get them as easily as they would by the other course of teaching, a half dozen lives - I have no faith in that mode of teaching that re- quires 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 me of his progress & he thinks he is doing well so that I am satisfied. Yet I know that if he has been in the class with some students that had studied Latin [illegible], when I was there, that it is an easy matter to account for his progress. I conclude from what he said that he had read the [illegible] & most of it & was nearly ready to take Caesar, my class has read the [illegible], [illegible], Cicero, and will finish Virgil this Quarter, & all of them com- menced Latin since I came here besides their daily exercise in [illegible] &c &c & S [illegible] Grammar, they have been nearly through Anthony Latin prose Composition They are like M. L. S & John - He did the same at M. in less time- don't take this as fool finding; I don't mean it as such, but I wish to know if all your students are like A. B. [Regnier]? Your Brother P. R. Kendall