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its right to be, and this was no easy matter, for the results 

 of its work might not be manifest for years to come. 



The Faculty of those early days was not a formidable 

 body in numbers. It consisted of the President, William 

 S. Clark, Professor E. S. Snell, of Amherst College, teach- 

 ing mathematics, Henry H. Goodell, Professor of Modern 

 Languages and English Literature, and the farmer, Levi 

 Stockb ridge, who gave instruction in agriculture. This was 

 indeed rather a small crowd to face an indifferent and some- 

 times hostile world; but indifference was to them far more 

 dangerous than hostility. 



Goodell's department was very congenial to his feelings 

 and tastes, especially English Literature. But during its 

 early years the College, although a state institution, was 

 handicapped in many ways. It was poor, and as a natural 

 consequence its appliances were insufficient and the corps 

 of teachers too small to meet the demands of even a small 

 number of pupils; so that at the beginning some important 

 branches of study were not provided with any instructors. 

 Goodell seems to have been called upon to fill the gap. It 

 seems almost impossible for a man to adjust himself to so 

 many different relations. "He was instructor in military 

 tactics and gymnastics from 1867 to 1869, lecturer on ento- 

 mology in 1869, instructor in zoology from 1869 to 1871, in 

 anatomy and physiology from 1869 to 1871 and again from 

 1882 to 1883, instructor in rhetoric and English language 

 from 1871 to 1873 and from 1883 to 1885, and in history 

 from 1872 to 1883; and in addition to this he was secretary 

 of the Faculty for four years, and librarian from 1885 to 

 1899." 



Had all these branches of instruction been in accord 



