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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 2: preparation for college; Monmouth and Yarmouth Academies (search)
e only to show how I felt with regard to strong drink at that period of my life. Before we graduated from Bowdoin Arthur McArthur had so suffered from drink that he had hard work to secure his diploma. The eminence and worthiness of his father, who had graduated years before from Bowdoin, pleaded strongly for him. The entrance examination was held in what was then the medical college building, where Professor Cleveland gave his lectures on chemistry, mineralogy, and astronomy. Professor Boody, who taught composition and elocution and sometimes Latin in the college, met us young men at the hall door and took us into a grewsome sort of room where there were a few chairs and every sort of article from specimen boxes and chemical retorts to articulated skeletons. Here we were examined in everything required. I succeeded very well in my reading and translations and in my mathematics, but was conditioned upon scanning. That I had never studied, so I could not scan at all from
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 3: college days at Bowdoin; United States Military Academy (search)
mbraced Livy under Professor Upham, a continuance of the Odyssey under Professor Packard, and algebra under Prof. William Smyth. At least once a week every member of our class was obliged to declaim before the class under the supervision of Professor Boody. He also caused every student to write themes, which must fill at least two pages of foolscap. Professor Boody took great pains with our speaking, endeavoring to train us in the right way in all that pertained to elocution. He was equalProfessor Boody took great pains with our speaking, endeavoring to train us in the right way in all that pertained to elocution. He was equally careful in reviewing and correcting our compositions. One of the professors was always present in the Old chapel where all the students met at dawn for prayers, and President Leonard Woods presided at the evening chapel exercises; his singularly sonorous voice so impressed every student that he never forgot it nor the dignified lessons which came gently yet forcibly from his lips. As I run over my college diary, and letters which I wrote to my mother and which she always preserved with