The Days of a Man 1879 



stein. Although occasionally erratic, and always 

 resistant to red tape, he was one of the real men of 

 the faculty, remarkably successful as a teacher and 

 sincerely loved by his students. After some ob- 

 scure difficulty with the president, he resigned in the 

 early '8o's, going to the Lawrenceville School, New 

 Jersey, where he soon after died. 



Brown County, our neighbor on the east, merits 

 County a worc i > The mos t hilly and backward part of the 

 state, without a railroad in my time, its highest 

 elevation, Weedy Patch, approaches the dignity of 

 a mountain. To this and to the sister summit, Bear 

 Wallow, my students and I made frequent pil- 

 grimages. Near the barren top of Weedy Patch 

 stood a poverty-stricken cabin, the owner of which 

 explained that somebody had to live there and so 

 he did ! 



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