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with them, delighted with their docility and intelli- 
gence, and anticipate a very happy time. So you see 
I have three sets of scholars, on different subjects. I 
ought to be “ apt to teach.” 
Saturday morning. —I must dispatch my letter by 
to-day’s mail, and as [am going to Boston, where I 
have not been for a week, I will drop it in the post 
office there, to insure its transmission by this after- 
noon’s mail. Yesterday afternoon I met the first two 
sections of my class of Freshmen for recitation. It 
went off very well. I am pretty good at asking ques- 
tions. The lads were well prepared. Next Tuesday 
I meet the third and fourth sections; and on Thurs- 
day, the ides of March, I give my first lecture on 
Botany. If I succeed well, I am sure no one will be 
more pleased and gratified than yourself, and that of 
itself is enough to incite me to effort. If I don’t alto- 
gether succeed, neither satisfying myself nor others, I 
shall not be discouraged, but try again, as I am deter- 
mined to succeed in the long run. Nil desperandum. 
I shall have the president to hear me; but he is said 
always to fall asleep on such occasions, and to be very 
commendatory when he awakes. 
I now board with the sister of my landlord, Deacon 
Munroe, a table of only five, one professor, one tutor, 
and two advanced law students. We yesterday com- 
menced the experiment of dining at five o’clock, much 
to my gratification, and if the other gentlemen like it 
as well as I do, we shall continue to dine at that hour, 
until summer at least. It is very cold here; though 
the sun shines brightly all day, it scarcely thaws at 
midday. 
