BEV. AUGUSTUS SHEPARD 25 



city, on the Smithfield road. President Tap- 

 per's house consisted of two rooms, with two 

 additional shed rooms attached, four rooms 

 in all. 



In this early and crude condition of the 

 school, no pupil had a greater influence in the 

 school, nor with the president, than did Au- 

 gustus Shepard. An incident occurred in the 

 fall of 1870 that gave evidence of this fact. 

 President Tupper, burdened with poverty and 

 laboring under many disadvantages for proper 

 facilities for such a school as he hoped to estab- 

 lish, decided to write to a wealthy friend in the 

 l!^orth and ask for a donation of $10,000. As 

 was his custom ever afterward, when a special 

 effort was to be made to secure funds, he asked 

 the student body to unite with him in prayer 

 that God might touch the heart of his friend, 

 and that the money might be forthcoming. Au- 

 gustus Shepard was appointed by the student 

 body to conduct this special service of prayer 

 for this donation. Said one of the students who 

 was present in this meeting, "All present were 

 convinced that Augustus Shepard, then young 

 in years, was strong in faith and deeply spirit- 

 ual." This meeting had the desired effect. 



