ing in quantity it certainly made up in some of its
qualities. We doubt if Freshmen to-day would
outshine their fellows of that very early time if
their declamations on Fridays were required to be
in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, "no English being
allowed save by special permission."

Science as we now know it had not entered into
the college course, but the little then known, and
the other studies considered essential, comparatively
limited as they must have been, were taught
so thoroughly that the men who carried away a
college diploma carried a sure guarantee that they
had been carefully taught whatever was then considered
essential to a college education.

Although it is true that science was then in
comparative infancy, it is also true that it was
deeply absorbing to young Hale. Some of his
most valued books were scientific, and, aside from
the studies he was obliged to pursue, he eagerly
absorbed educational theories and the best literary
works then available. As a college student, he
stood high; as a thinker and as one interested in
the finest pursuits of his period, he ranked equally
high. Before he was nineteen he had won the
permanent friendship and ardent admiration of a
man who was then his tutor, Timothy Dwight,
later the renowned president of Yale College, and

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