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accepting- the correction silently, he insisted that he 

 was right and that the master was wrong. This 

 brought immediately the rebuke, 'Ts this your Phila- 

 delphia politeness ?" to which he replied, " It is my 

 Philadelphia Greek, sir." 



After leaving the school at Medford, he was placed 

 in the care of a clergyman at West Cambridge, in 

 whose family he remained until July, 1793, when he 

 entered the Freshmen class at Harvard University, the 

 president of which, at that time, was the Rev. Joseph 

 Willard, D. D. and LL. D. In the autumn after his 

 admission he unfortunately lost his mother by her 

 death, and thus became doubly an orphan. How he 

 acquitted himself in college is shown by the fact that 

 on his graduation in 1797, he divided the first honor of 

 his class with a single classmate. 



It was at Bordentown and at Harvard that Mr. 

 Binney laid the foundation on which he subsequently 

 built his character and his fame. Protected by Divine 

 Providence, as he was wont to acknowledge, against 

 the perils that even then beset the paths of young 

 men in a college course ; having an ardent desire for 

 distinction in his class, a desire which forbade any 

 deviation from moral rectitude, and sternly resisted 

 every temptation to indolence, or vicious indulgence ; 

 he secured for himself all the advantages of mental and 

 moral culture, which the most advanced collegiate edu- 

 cation in this country could then give. Through his 

 entire college life his intercourse with the officers of 



