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nize and acknowledge the fallibility of judgment, and a prompt detennination to profit by the lessons of experience. Their work should not be estimated by the standards of the present, for be subjected to the criticism which may justly be visited upon the blunders of their successors.

First Published List of Teachers.

1. Mr. A. S. Welch, Principal and Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages.

2. Miss A. C. Rogers, Preceptress and teacher of Botany and Belles-Lettres.

3. Mr, Orson Jackson, Professor of Mathematics.

4. Rev. J. A. Wilson, Professor of Intellectual Philosophy.

5, Mr. J. M. B. Sill, Teacher of English Grammar and Elocution.

Of two or three of these we shall speak more at length further on, after a few other teachers of the early years of the school have been briefly mentioned. Miss H. K. Clapp was employed to take charge of the Model School at its opening, and remained in that position until 1856, She was succeeded by Miss Susan G. Tyler, who resigned in July, 1863, to visit Europe. Miss Lottie Pomeroy followed her and continued in charge till 1869. She was succeeded, for a short time, by Mrs. Evans, who was followed, in 1870, by Miss Minerva B. Rorison who served until the radical reorganization of the Training School in the following year.

Professor Jackson continued in the chair of Mathematics until March of 1856, when he resigned on account of ill-health. Mr.John E, Clark than occupied the position for one year. Mr. George S. Jewell held the Professorship of Mathematics from April 1857, till July 1858. Mr. George E. Dudley succeeded Mr. Jewell, and held the position until his much lamented death in 1860. Mr. E. L. Ripley of Jackson was Professor of Mathematics from 1861 to 1867. He was succeeded by Prof.C. F. R. Bellows who continued in the chair until the close of the school year 1890-91. He was followed by Dr. David Eugene Smith, who held the position till June, 1898, when he resigned to take the Principalship of the Normal School in Brockport, N.Y. Professor Elmer A. Lyman became the head of the Mathematical department in the fall of 1898, to succeed Dr. Smith.