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was coming to him. The punishment was, however, rarely or never 

 resented, the master's sense of justice and his desire to make boys 

 truthful and honest being fully recognized. While fighting and 

 disorderly behavior, even at recess, were forbidden, the Doctor realized 

 that the best way for the boys to settle some of their differences was 

 for one or the other to secure a black eye or a bloody nose, before he 

 descended in his wrath to stop the combat. The students of the 

 school at the period referred to were the best prepared of those apply- 

 ing for admission to the University, to Princeton, or to other colleges, 

 and for a time the first honor man in every class in the University 

 was a Faires Boy. If the school could be said to have a specialty it 

 was careful instruction in Latin and Greek. 



These were the influences under which Chapman was prepared for 

 the Department of Arts of the University of Pennsylvania. Those 

 who knew him in after years will readily believe that Dr. Faires was 

 sincere when he declared that he had never had a more brilliant 

 scholar on the roll of the school. The originality and mental acuteness 

 of the boy were early apparent. He was, however, far from being a 

 diligent or attentive student, his tendency to regard the world from 

 a humorous point of view leading him into the difficulties encountered 

 by all such youths. They are nearly always loved, although some- 

 times dreaded, by the teacher. 



The classes in the College, or the Department of Arts of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, which he entered in 1860 from this preparatory 

 school, occupied the upper of the two buildings on 9th Street between 

 Chestnut and Market Streets, the site of the mansion built in 1800 as 

 the residence of the Presidents of the United States. The faculty 

 was small, as was also the attendance, which was quite local as 

 compared with the present cosmopolitan enrollment in West Phila- 

 delphia. The men who filled the Chairs, however, were of tne first 

 rank in their specialties and it was a great advantage to the student 

 to come into direct relation with the professors themselves, there 

 being at that time no assistants or tutors. Henry Vethake, John 

 F. Frazer, George Allen, Henry Coppee and Provost Goodwin, with 

 the remarkable mathematician, E. Otis Kendall, were the equals, 

 and in many respects the superiors, of the teachers in other institutions. 

 The students all lived in their own homes. The system of instruc- 

 tion practiced in the school was well adapted to produce educated, 

 efficient and honorable men, provided with the requirements of active 

 life as well as with the accomplishments of the scholar. Social 

 grades were sharply marked, much more so than at piesent. The 



