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Men Who Led 141 literature in the class who would begin declining a Latin noun. The ruler would descend hitting its former mark, the heels flying again in the air, the ruler again pointed to the class and the operation again be repeated until a sufficient number of blows had been administered when the young recreant would be released with no increase to his knowledge of Latin but a supposed sufficiency of an improvement in scholarship," No wonder that in later years he cared little whether classics were ever taught in the new proposed industrial university.19 In 1832 Mr, Murray entered Columbia college as a freshman. He remained there for two terms. During this period his father required him to work in a carpenter's shop and later to attend lectures on civil engineering. In 1834 his father gave him three dollars and started him out to work as a rodman for an engineering party working on the Morris canal from Newark to Jersey City. Thus began his professional life of civil engineer which lasted some ten years. He worked in various places on numerous jobs from New York to Michigan. The experiences of these years in the newly developing west gave him a confidence and a poise that were striking characteristics throughout all the remaining years of his life. The panic of 1837, and the resulting financial depressions during the subsequent years, having destroyed all prospects of the early resumption of railroad construction and of public works and thereby his immediate outlook as a civil engineer, Murray decided to go west and settle on some 1,600 acres of land owned by his father. Therefore in 1844 he went out to Chicago, bought equipment and began farming.20 In 1847 he returned to New York state and in June of that year married Miss Anna E. Peyton, daughter of Colonel Rowzee Peyton of Richmond, Virginia, who had moved to Geneva, New York. Returning with his bride by stage coach to Chicago, they went then by canal boat to Ottawa and then by team to his farm at Farm Ridge, ten miles south of town. While living on this 8ee Murray's "Suggestions for a basis of an Illinois Industrial University," paragraph 1, in appendix p. 435. *°A receipted bill for a horse and wagon bought in Chicago shows that he paid the munificent sum of twelve dollars and some cents for them. w
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