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and for the improvement of the young men in their married state of Speaking I would say yes to your society that you appoint a critic whos duty it shall be to sit with paper and pencil during the discussion and note down all grammatical errors all inelegant gestures and falts of the speakers and to be read after the debate, to read the objetious, point out the defects, and lecture them severely. This is the way these societies ?, and ?I concieve it to be verry improveing.

              This College is verry strict in her laws, which is nothing but right, they also require a greateal? before scholars are admitted in college I am taking a regular scientific course with the Greek. In my English course I have no studies but algebra , having been examined in my others and excused, so it is algebra and greek, in Greek they told me that as I was preparing for the ministry and s there was no suitable class in the preparatory, that I ought come in the freshman, and see what I could. I told them I new nothing about Greek, but I could learn faster in college than in the Kitchens (as it termed) so I reviewed my grammar and came in college last Monday. They told me if I only got five lines and that good I would do well but I got the whole lesson and have every day yet, and am getting along finely. We are reading Xenophon's Anubasis and get from twenty to thirty lines a day also a review lesson of the same number of line, there is no telling what a man can do until he is made to do. If any of the boys in your school are a going to take regular course push them in the languages, as that is the most essential part