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would lead. Dissensions arose about the school. He 

 was stigmatized as a theorist. There were people 

 who would have called him a crank, if that term had 

 been invented. Some of his innovations were so rad- 

 ical as to attract sharp if ignorant criticism. Finally, 

 various petty discontents were brought together in 

 a movement against him, hardly more creditable 

 in form than in purpose, that resulted in forcing 

 him from the school. Master of his own art, he 

 could not encounter the town-meeting champions, and 

 when the school was dragged into the pit of town 

 politics, he retired from an ungrateful contest in 

 which he would have esteemed victory no better than 

 defeat. 



He met the new situation by opening in Milford a 

 private normal school. It was popular and success- 

 ful, but after a few years he abandoned it to his de- 

 sire for travel and study in Europe. Returning home 

 after a year's absence, he was called to the charge of 

 various schools and science classes, principally in 

 Boston, and after many years in that field of service 

 he retired from active work some twenty years ago 

 or more, to spend the remainder of his days in this 

 village. 



He was never taken at his true value, here or else- 

 where. The world never found him out. Doctor of 

 Science by higher authority than the universities, no 



