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I was so unfortunate, you know, as not to arrive here in season to join one of the societies, and so was deprived of the pleasure of being at the 'supper' which is the finest part of each anniversary. After the oration you see, they 9 or 9 o'clock, they adjourn to Commons Hall, where a collation is served up in style, and the evening finished which toasts, speeches. The Feast of Reason & the flow of soul!

  I was regularly initiated as a member of the Theological Society of Bowd. Coll.

March 26th This society is of little importance compared with the others, though it owns a small library, and meets nominally once a fortnight for discussions & reading dissertations on moral subjects Sc. and it contains many good members. It's object is the promotion & search for truth. It's charges are $1.00 initiation fee, and, 20 per term tax, besides fines. The Initiation fee of the Penc. & Ath. is $3,00 and tax $,50 I believe, besides a Subscription.

   The medical class this spring is called a very good one, members 70 or 80, Joseph Walker, Asa's brother is here, I see him once in a while. He and three other young doctors plain country fellows, all from Wilton I believe, room together all in one room only, with two beds in it and a chair apiece,

down town, I have been in to see them once or twice, they seem to be good clever sort of fellows & will make useful men. This Joseph Walker is not so much of an to look at as either Asa or James. Looks like them both though.

I have been into one of the Medical Lectures once only, it was by Dr Peaslie a fine, pale, intellectual looking, rather young man, and was upon the moral duties of Physicians especially towards one another.  The way he talked about Doctors quarrelling want any complement to the profession!  It was a very good lecture. I never have been into the dissecting rooms, I have smelt them enough though, many of other folks go in, Chum went in tother day, did not get over it all day.  They have a good many subjects this spring, bought from Baltimore, mostly colored.
     The Church, where we students attend meeting is to be taken down and a new one built this spring.  Last Sabbath, Mr Adams gave notice that

next night would be the last time they should worship in that house, and the students demonstrated their approbation by really almost clapping, or stamping in the church some of them. Some pretend to say that it was the greatest expression of approbation that Mr Adams ever received from the students, and to be sure, they were not quite so much to blame, when we consider the miserable accommodations they have there in the old church. 100 or 150 of them crowded together in that little miserable gallery, on such hard seats. Apr. 6th Today Mr Adams preached his farewell sermon to the old House. It was somewhat historical. It appears that this church is a century and a quarter old, the first meeting house was built in 1720. In 1728 the first regular minister was settled Robert Dunlop, a Scotchman, educated at Edinburgh and ancestor of the Gov Dunlop's etc. of Brunswick. The Bible that he used in the pulpit was shown, also one of sermons. The present house was built in 1806, and the first use of it was for the first College Commencement, before it was finished. It was then considered a very spacious as well as very beautiful house , about as it now is. It has been preached in more than 2000 sabbaths, and a thousand young men have received their degrees in it and gone forth to the world. Mr Adams was settled in 1829. It must be a very large church. Me, it, said these more, and had, been for years, more than double the No. of families in the society that there were pews in the house! And many could not go to meeting for lack of seat. I do not wonder they wanted a new house, and finally concluded to build one. They will probably have a splendid one. It is to be on the same spot with the old one, and meanwhile, two or three months we shall have to attend meeting in the vestry, a great old farm like building downtown. The matter, the manner, or the writing, of this letter are certainly nothing to boast of, but I think the size ought to recommend it in your eyes, it surely would in mind if I could receive such from home occasionally. The next thing to it however would be such an one as Lucy wrote to me last, that was indeed a well filled letter, for which I am very much obliged to her, and take the opportunity to beg that she will repeat the favor and that frequently. Also Joseph and all the rest of you. I wish that Eliab would realize the importance of writing to him, the benefit it would be to him. I think Mother that you ought to take time and write good long letters to him.