Clarence King's School-days 



CLARENCE KING was brought 

 to New Haven by his widowed 

 mother some years before he entered 

 college, and they dwelt on Church 

 Street opposite the house of President 

 Woolsey and close by the house of 

 Dr. Bacon. His appearance at that 

 time I recall distinctly. He had the 

 same bright face, winning smile, agile 

 movement, that we knew in later life. 

 Soon the two, then and always a de- 

 voted pair, went to Hartford, where, 

 if I am not mistaken, Clarence was a 

 pupil in the historic grammar school 

 founded by Edward Hopkins. Al- 

 though his aptitude for letters was 

 inborn and inbred, he chose the 

 scientific courses at Yale, in place of 

 the academic, and he entered the 

 Sheffield Scientific School in 1859. 

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