garden on the east side. One was a dreary barn-like place, with dirt floor, 

 which was fitted up as a gymnasium, though I never saw anybody try to 

 use it. The other, Langdonic Hall, was a much more cheerful place, 

 well floored with hard wood and brightly lighted by large windows. 

 Nobody, except regularly organized baseball clubs, had any special 

 clothing for exercise; one simply took off one's coat and "pitched in"; 

 nor was the preparation always as elaborate as that. I can distinctly 

 remember one Seminary student, who was a wonderful kicker at football 

 and always played in a long-tailed clerical coat. Because of its freedom 

 from furniture and stationary apparatus, Langdonic Hall was in great 

 demand for church fairs, "strawberry festivals" and the like. 



I spoke just now of the football game which the Seminary students 

 played; it was unlike every other form of the game known to me and 

 was so arranged that even very little boys could safely take part in it, as 

 I did constantly. The field of play was the ground between the Old 

 Seminary and the Refectory, and the goals were, respectively, the 

 Refectory wall and the road on the south side of the old Seminary; thus, 

 the goal line ran the whole width of the field. Parallel with the goal and 

 thirty or forty feet in front of it, was another line which no opposing 

 player could cross, and the ball had to be kicked from outside of this 

 forbidden area to cross or strike the goal. Within the shelter of "the 

 line," small boys could act as goal keepers and several of us did so quite 

 regularly; once or twice, I was granted the signal honour of being al- 

 lowed to kick the ball out. The ball itself was of rubber, with a cover of 

 leather, like a Rugby football, except that it was spherical, not egg- 

 shaped. No particular number constituted a side, but the sides were kept 

 as nearly equal as might be. 



The sanitary arrangements of both College and Seminary were in- 

 credibly and disgracefully bad. Bathing facilities there were none, save 

 the portable tin tub, which each man was at liberty to get for himself. 

 There was no system of sewers or water supply in the town; each house 

 had its own cesspool and its own well or cistern. There was no central 

 heating plant in either institution and the Seminary students laid in great 

 supplies of hickory and oak, which were stacked in a labyrinth of high 

 piles of cordwood, and many men got their exercise by sawing and split- 

 ting their firewood; in College, anthracite coal was burned in stoves and 

 grates. 



It is surprising that I should have known so little of the College in 

 those days, notwithstanding the fact that my oldest brother, Charles, was 

 a student from 1864 to 1868; but it was an immense distance away, nearly 



