No. 601] CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 



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jected after examination. In the autumns of 1861, '62 

 and '63 and in the spring of 1864 Charles attended the 

 Norway ''Liberal Institute," an academy of high school 

 grade, where his uncle, George F. Leonard, taught. It is 

 said that he taught winters to obtain the means for pay- 

 ing his school expenses. 



He entered Bowdoin College as a sophomore in Sep- 

 tember, 1865, and was given the degree of B.A. in July, 

 1868. Lillie attributes Whitman's strong views in favor 

 of the requirement of Latin for a college education to the 

 emphasis laid in his day on the classics at Bowdoin. He 

 participated in the student literary and debating inter- 

 ests. He ranked about ninth in a class of 23, his rank 

 having been decreased through the necessity he was under 

 of teaching to earn funds for his college expenses. The 

 following autumn he was appointed principal of the Acad- 

 emy at Westford, Massachusetts, and continued in this 

 eapncity until the spring of 1872. Here he apparently 

 taught a variety of subjects. In September, 1872, he was 

 appointed sub-master at the English High School in Bos- 

 ton where his uncle, George F. Leonard, had been for some 

 years master. Here he taught general high school sub- 

 jects until the summer of 1875. ^lorse states that he dis- 

 tinguished himself there by lii^ origiiinl methods in teach- 

 ing certain branches of clcniontnry science. 



"While in Boston," says Lillie. ''Whitman came un- 

 der the influence of Louis Agassiz and was one of the 50 

 students who, in July and August, 1873, attended the 

 Anderson School of Natural History founded by Agassiz 

 on the island of Penikese." Here he met Professor E. 



^forse, one of the instructors, who became interested 

 ill h\m because of his drawings, superior even to Morse's 

 owTi. Whitman returned to Penikese in the summer of 

 1^71. after which the laboratory was abandoned. The 

 sliort-livod Penikese laboratory greatly impressed those 

 wlio attended it and several of tlieso became founders of 

 other marine laboratories — thus. Hyatt of a laboratory at 

 Annisnuam, AVhitinaii of one at Woods Hole, Franklin AV. 

 Hoo'^e- of one at Cold Sibl ing Harbor, David Starr Jor- 



