1876.] *^ [Strong. 



great, that on one occasion, instead of going to his 

 stepfather's, where he was always happy, he remained 

 in his chambers in one of the college buildings during 

 an entire autumnal vacation, and studied every day of 

 it fourteen hours. Habits and tastes like these were 

 his constant shield, as well as his instruments of power ; 

 and long after his graduation he was able to say, " I 

 look back to my college life with great satisfaction. I 

 was a fair student of everything I was required to 

 learn, and it does not now occur to me that I ever 

 missed a recitation, or the chapel service at six in the 

 morning, winter or summer. * * I have no recollec- 

 tion that during those four years I ever did a thing to 

 make my friends blush, and their praises when I left 

 college gave me courage to begin my first steps in the 

 world." 



During the year immediately preceding his gradua- 

 tion he began to look forward to his life work. His 

 father and his step-father having been physicians, it was 

 to be expected that his attention would be turned 

 to the profession to which they had belonged. Accord- 

 ingly he felt a strong desire to study medicine and 

 surgery, and he attended a course of lectures on anat- 

 omy delivered by Dr. Warren, the father of one of his 

 favorite classmates, He also read some medical books. 

 But his step-father earnestly dissuaded him from at- 

 tempting the profession, and induced him to give up 

 all thought of it. 



After his graduation in July, 1797, he remained in 



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