YOUTH 7 



ing. French he picked up in the street, as it was the lan- 

 guage commonly spoken. 



But his parents were too wise to continue this method 

 long. The growing boy must have more air and a larger 

 world. Accordingly, at the age of seventeen, "a tender age," 

 as he used to say, he left Constantinople, July 30, 1856, in 

 company with an older sister, in the Race Horse, a sailing 

 vessel, and after a voyage of sixty-seven days arrived in 

 New York, October 5. 



He went immediately to Williston Seminary, Easthamp- 

 ton, and for the first year studied with both the Junior and 

 the Middle Classes and graduated with the class of 1858, 

 doing the work of three years in two. In the Seminary he 

 was very quiet, did nothing to attract attention, seemed to 

 have few friends, or even acquaintances, and was almost 

 unknown to those who became at once on entering college 

 his companions, and lifelong friends after college days had 

 become a matter of the past. He was looked upon as a 

 hard-working student. Perhaps in the minds of some of 

 his fellow-students there was a certain mystery about him, 

 born as he was in a strange land, under a strange civiliza- 

 tion, and so far from friends and home. And then the new- 

 ness of the new world may have had a repressing influence 

 upon him. 



He entered Amherst College in the fall of 1858, and was 

 graduated with the class of 1862. In college the real man 

 came to the front, with a large percentage of the boy. He 

 found friends everywhere, — in his own class, in the higher 

 classes and among the Faculty. He was always good- 

 natured, always cheerful, at times rollicking, and ready to 

 take a hand in any good fun or practical joke. He was still 



