.MTc1.NDA4Mjg

Classes here, I take them out and put them by themselves, and then pound at them go to suit themselves. 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 terms study ahead many students, that I have here in the Eng. Branches and had just begun the Languages. They now are one term ahead of him in the Eng Branch and at the rate he had 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. Do you say that mine have not gone thoroughly? My dear sir they will repeat the Grammar & Parselation lessons nearly as rapidly 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 out 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 lines. I have no faith in that mode of teaching that requires two or three years to fit a student for College. I know nothing of Your Mode of teaching the Languages. I only realize 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 there, 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 Reader & Vici Romae or most of it & was nearly ready to take Caesar. My Class has read the Reader Vici Romae, Sollust, Cicero and will finish Virgil this Quarter, & all of their commenced Latin. Since I came here besides their daily Exercise in Parsing & Etc & S Latin Grammar, they have been nearly through Authors Latin prose Composition. They are like M.L.St John-- He did the Same at M. in less time - don't take this as fault 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