VIII MEMORIAL ADDRESS 



For his own education he seems to have selected 

 teachers rather than schools. Among them he always 

 spoke of William Russell with particular respect, but 

 the most notable part of his training was at the 

 Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, 

 under the personal direction of Agassiz and Hors- 

 ford. They were so quick to see his merits that they 

 opened to him not only the facilities of the school, 

 but their private laboratories, with their personal 

 assistance and intimacy. He studied the sciences 

 with them, and the science of teaching, before 

 it had occurred to people in general that there is 

 such a science. Drinking at this spring, his thirst 

 for a knowledge of scientific education was only stim- 

 ulated. It became the object of his life, and he went 

 abroad twenty years later for extended study of the 

 educational systems of Europe. 



He first tried his hand as a teacher in the district 

 schools of his own and neighboring towns, and after 

 some 3'ears of this apprenticeship he came to Milford 

 in 1855 and took charge of the high school. It was 

 soon after the erection of the School street building, 

 now discredited as the "old brick," but then the 

 wonder of the town. For the next dozen years 

 Milford had, under his tuition, probably the best high 

 school in New Hampshire, and if there has been a 

 better anywhere I have never seen or heard of it. 



