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who may be present with you at your celebration of the 

 completion of a full century of academic achievement. 



I have a strong affection for your Academy and for the 

 pleasant village where I spent the larger part of six school- 

 years (1840-1846) under the direct supervision of Mayhew, 

 Norton, and Moore, all thorough scholars, inspiring teachers, 

 in every way most friendly, most helpful, most exemplary, 

 most companionable. 



The class-rooms where they taught always were pleasant 

 places when lighted up by their cheerful presence, and the 

 atmosphere that environed them seemed full of generous and 

 sympathetic goodness. Those class-rooms not infrequently 

 became places of entertainment, and the strain of closely fol- 

 lowing the rigid demonstrations of logic or mathematics, or 

 of compelling some idiom of a dead language to resuscitate, 

 was relieved by a flash of wit or a thrust of sarcasm that may 

 have stung slightly, but deservedly, and made a sensation that 

 delighted the entire town of Lowville. 



Wishing for you a most agreeable and profitable celebra- 

 tion, and for the Lowville Academy perennial endurance and 

 ever-growing prosperity, I am, Very sincerely yours, 



S. W. Johnson. 



Books accumulated during sixty years filled to over- 

 flowing three rooms of his dwelling. When impaired 

 vision precluded further serious work, Professor John- 

 son dismantled his library. He sent an unusual col- 

 lection of old agricultural books and journals as a gift 

 to the Connecticut Station. While director he had 

 completed the station's files of State and Federal pub- 

 lications on agriculture ; in the years immediately fol- 

 lowing his retirement he assembled a nearly complete 

 duplicate set. This he now gave to the Yale University 

 Library. A large number of scientific journals on his 

 shelves was added to the library of his son-in-law. 



