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combining work with pleasure was continued by us 

 for many years, indeed until the removal to the new 

 buildings, when successive additions to the staff and 

 consequent increase of time required for the business 

 of the college, compelled us to abandon the home 

 meetings and transfer them to the college 

 buildings. 



In the early years, when the staff consisted of 

 only five or six professors, we were frequently 

 invited in a body to the hospitable tables of the 

 wealthy Manchester merchants. This social element 

 in our life of hard work was extremely pleasant, and 

 I believe that for many years the free intercourse 

 between townsmen and staff succeeded in keeping 

 down the town and gown feeling, so much to be 

 deplored in University centres. 



That by this time our teaching was become 

 popular may be judged from one of the difficulties of 

 our Principal, Dr. Greenwood. A merchant came 

 into the Principal's room accompanied by his son. 

 After explaining that he wanted the boy to be 

 admitted as student, the Principal inquired which 

 classes he would like his son to attend. The good 

 merchant, jingling gold in his trousers' pockets with 

 a proud consciousness he could afford it, replied, 

 " Oh ! I reckon he may tak' 'em all." 



