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First Years of Work 317 price. I think the board was $3.00 per week. In the diningroom were six, and sometimes eight long tables each seating ten persons. These were always nicely set with white linen and pretty china. There were generally sixty or over at table for the first term. Professor Atherton boarded at the Hall, most of the time he was there. He and Professor Baker (not I. 0.) were Dr. Gregory's only associates at the opening of the classes. Among the boarders were Jim Mathews, Willie Reiss, James Graham, Abbott, Sawyer, Lawver, Will Hubbard, and others. I presume they all remember bright red-cheeked Lucy and her quiet assistant who waited on table. We had a good cook, and there was an effort to make the table attractive to the boys from the farms who had always had good living. The result was that in a little over a year's time we found it could not be done, and the boarding-hall was given up. The boys boarded in clubs, or took care of themselves in their rooms, or roomed and boarded with near-bye residents." t( In those days all the boys were obliged to work two hours a day, and did so until there were too many, and then those were allowed to work who needed the money to help pay expenses. There were great changes in the first few months. Fences were built. Trees and shrubs were set out. Grass was sown, and the refreshing green took the place of the mud. Gravel walks were laid out, and made it possible to step without sinking shoe deep in the mud. Altogether, at the end of the second spring the surroundings were entirely changed.'' In regard to the spirit of the institution, the origin of the literary societies, and the effect of the admission of women, an interesting account is given by Charles Wesley Rolfe of the class of 1872 who was for thirty-seven years an instructor and professor in the university. "When the University opened its doors/' says Professor Rolfe, "we were in a period of transition between the old education as it was then called, based primarily on a study of Latin and Greek, and the new which had for its basis the application of science to the affairs of daily life. The movement away from the classics and toward the sciences was then relatively new and was being vigorously pushed, so the contest between the two &M
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