"More hay!" instantly replied the discomfited
Deacon, nimbly scrambling back to his place on
the cart.

Despite this little accident at the beginning of
the afternoon, it is safe to state that a generous
storage of hay took place before sunset.

But happy as were these college days and homecomings,
and rich as were the harvests gleaned in
them, the four years in college halls sped swiftly,
and in 1773 Enoch Hale and Nathan turned their
faces toward the future; the one to a long life and
faithful Christian service, the other toward the
briefest of mortal days, but to a service whose
memory will not end till his college walls shall have
crumbled, and the names of all its heroic sons faded
from the earth. For even though stones may
crumble, influence lives on.

It has already been said that at graduation
Nathan Hale stood among the first thirteen in a
class of thirty-six. On Commencement Day,
September 3, 1773, he took part in a forensic
debate on the question, "Whether the Education of
Daughters be not, without any just reason, more
neglected than that of Sons."

In "Memories of a Hundred Years" Dr. Edward
Everett Hale says: "As early as 1772 there appears
at Yale College the first question ever de-

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