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their rooms. Such was college life in the days of 

 Professor Jenks. During his entire course of four 

 years he never had, as he himself states, a tardy 

 mark, nor did he lose a day's recitation on account 

 of sickness or absence. He attended all the meet- 

 ings of the Philermenian Debating Society of which 

 he was a member, the prayer meetings of his class 

 on Friday evenings, the meetings of the Religious 

 Society on Wednesday evenings, and the monthly 

 meetings of the Society for Missionary Inquiry. 

 His example as a Christian man is in this respect 

 worthy of imitation. During a part of his course 

 he conducted a Bible class in Olneyville, and dur- 

 ing his Senior year he was Superintendent of the 

 Third Baptist, now the Union Baptist Sunday School. 

 He was strict in his attendance upon Dr. Wayland's 

 Bible class, which was held each Sunday afternoon 

 after the preaching service. The Dr. was accus- 

 tomed to use the Greek text, arranging to go through 

 the New Testament every four years. When he 

 reached Revelation, says Jenks, he would say: 

 '* Young gentlemen we will begin the New Testa- 

 ment again, as I do not understand Revelation, but 

 hope to some time, probably not in this life." 



When he entered college his class numbered ac- 

 cording to the catalogue, forty-three, and he found 

 himself standing in scholarship forty-one, or nearly 

 at the foot. He had not the grammatical knowledge 

 of Latin and Greek which others of his class pos- 

 sessed, who had fitted at the schools of Boston and 



