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led him to communicate all the knowledge possible in 

 the hour, and by perspicuity of style and skill of arrange- 

 ment to make it the most available to the student. We 

 have the testimony of the best scholars that they 

 attended no lectures where they got more information. 

 The number of scholars the first year was small, but it 

 each year increased, till at last the experiment of the 

 school was decided, a new department of professional 

 study in the university was created, and a liberal and 

 scientific pursuit opened to the young men of our 

 country. And it is due to his memory to say, that 

 during these five years of incessant toil, he received no 

 salary whatever, and that the remuneration from tuition, 

 after paying necessary expenses, would not amount to 

 the wages of a day laborer. At the same time he 

 had been offered a foundation of twenty thousand 

 dollars, in one of the large colleges of the country, with 

 a salary of three thousand dollars, if he would devote 

 himself to chemistry in its application to the arts ; and 

 from time to time other lucrative places were pressed 

 upon him. He however regarded the interests of 

 agriculture as paramount to all others, and was not to 

 be diverted from his devotion to them. He had chosen 

 Yale College as the best place for the establishment of 

 such a school as he was desirous of founding ; he had 

 there principally received his education, and he was 



