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occupied by President Dwight, and afterwards by 

 President Day. But Professor Norton was well fitted 

 for the work he had undertaken. His acquaintance with 

 the operations of the farm, gained by personal experience, 

 his good sense and sound judgment, and his simple and 

 gentlemanly bearing, won the regard of the farming 

 community ; and he took unwearied pains, through 

 addresses, lectures, more formal treatises, and numerous 

 publications in agricultural journals, to disseminate 

 elevated views of the necessity of scientific knowledge 

 to the farmer. His influence was extensively felt, and 

 was becoming stronger every year. Within the school, 

 the more immediate sphere of his labors, his influence 

 was equally great. He was a most admirable instructor. 

 His hopeful, joyous, sympathetic disposition, his great 

 equanimity, his pleasant, familiar manner, his quiet 

 humor, rendered his presence in the laboratory always 

 agreeable to the scholars, while his interest in their 

 studies and welfare awakened a strong personal attach- 

 ment. Although discouraged at his first attempts, he 

 was fast becoming one of our best lecturers. He had 

 firm possession of the knowledge he had acquired, and 

 was thus able to give precise and definite information. 

 His natural opposition to vain show kept him from the 

 folly of professedly fine speaking and rhetorical decla- 

 mation, while the deep interest he felt in his subject, 



