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tures, of mathematics and philosophy. The course was severe 
and the training rigid and thorough. Young Lesquereux be- 
came a good classical scholar, even according to the high 
standard that then prevailed. He read Latin and Greek at 
sight and wrote Latin with facility to the day of his death. To 
accomplish these things costs strenuous labor, — there is but 
one road that leads to such results. His day's work as a stud- 
ent often covered fourteen, or even sixteen hours. Through- 
out his course he was obliged to eke out a scant allowance by 
giving private tuition to his juniors in the college, but this 
work paid him not alone in the money he earned, but in a firm- 
er hold on the subjects which he taught. 
It fell out in his after life that he made comparatively little 
direct use of what he learned at such an outlay of time and 
force in his college days ; but he never regretted the severe 
discipline to which he had been subjected. He ascribed to it, 
in fact, a large measure of the success that he afterwards 
attained in widely different fields. 
At the end of a seven years residence at Neuchatel, he had 
completed his academic course, and aside from a genuine and 
even enthusiastic love of nature, he had not come in sight of 
natural science. We hear nothing more of the study of theol- 
ogy and it is probable that he gradually drifted away from the 
end to which his earlier studies were directed. The love of 
learning had been awakened in the youth and he could not rest 
content at the point where he was left by his collegiate course. 
He resolved to continue his studies in a German university, 
but in compassing this result he must depend upon his own re- 
sources. 
The easiest way for the j^outh just out of college to earn 
money was by teaching others what he had himself learned, 
and the easiest thing for him to teach was his native tongue 
and for this, happily, there was a good market at that time. 
French was the language of diplomacy and culture through- 
out Europe and a knowledge of it was indispensable to all who 
would advance in politics or shine in social life. 
Young Lesquereux found it easy to secure an engagement 
in Germany as instructor in French. He became private tutor 
in a noble family in the city of Eisenach, Saxe Weimar. The 
duties of instruction that he assumed required but a part of his 
time and he was at liberty to use the balance in private tuition. 
