one or two males leading, and some dident have any males. Q 

 I shot a young female without any greater coverts developed. 

 I at first thought that they were pulled out by accident but 

 since both sides were without them, I hardly think that prob- 

 able. I never saw a bird before without the wing coverts. I 

 came home and drew the bird. 



THE last paragraph was written by young Wherry in the 

 first vacation after his entrance into the father's old 

 school. Through amalgamation with its erstwhile rival, the in- 

 stitution had now lengthened its title to Washington and 

 Jefferson college. (The bloody shirt is still waved by the old- 

 timers!) Softened somewhat in its sectarianism, it was still 

 manfully "Christian;" and in its curriculum, stoutly "classi- 

 cal" — two qualifications of higher education for which the 

 elder Wherry was strong proponent. In the junior's time the 

 school already boasted a graduate list of four thousand. These, 

 however, were no ordinary men. The lot numbered three hun- 

 dred and fifty congressmen, legislators and judges, twenty 

 governors and senators, four cabinet secretaries, along with an 

 assorted list of thirty-two moderators, seventy-five college 

 presidents and one hundred and seventy professors! 



Wherry's academic record is still available in some carefully 

 preserved dispatches made every three months by college 

 authority to the father direct. School experts and others com- 

 mitted to the enterprise of forecasting the future of their 

 wards on the basis of reports sent a dean, may toy with the 

 following items. Of the five subjects of his freshman year, 

 Wherry came out "meritoriously" (with a "1") in but two — 

 physical culture and assigned reading. In Latin he made "2;" 

 in Greek, "3 ;" in pure mathematics, "4." The "barely passed" 

 of the last named subject then went into the chronic dead horse 

 class as the on-coming years tripped him successively in solid 

 geometry, trigonometry, radicals, quadratics, the ellipse and 

 the parabola (the latter got him foul, twice) . The market on 

 physical culture rapidly softened to "2" — and clung there. 

 His Greek never got out of the "3" class; nor his Latin out of 

 the "2." He scored "1" on the Bible, when he started upon it 

 in his sophomore year, but (for shame! ) only "2" in the junior 

 and "3" in the senior sessions. There appeared also a crescendo 



