Chapter II

College Days

In September, 1769, accompanied by Enoch,
an older brother, Nathan Hale entered the Freshman
class at Yale. His personal traits easily
won the hearts of his classmates, while his quick
understanding, his high scholarship, and his loyalty
to the college standards made him as popular
among tutors and professors as among his classmates.
It is pleasant to know that, from the time
we first learn of him until we see him standing
beside the fatal tree, he appears to have won all
hearts worth winning.

But Nathan Hale had yet another gift that
would surely endear him to college students of
to-day as much as it doubtless did to his own
classmates. He was a powerful athlete., So great
was his skill in this line that, to successive generations
of Yale men, the "broad jump" made by
Nathan Hale remained unequaled. It is said to
have taken place on what is now called" The Green"
in New Haven, not far from the Old State House;

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