They were not well graded; the teachers may never have heard of pedagogy.

Their libraries were small or altogether lacking, and their apparatus was scanty; but in spite of these drawbacks an unusually large proportion of the students were desirous to learn.

Many teachers loved mathematics or Latin, and some of the students gained a thorough if narrow preparation for college.

An examination of college registers of the period shows a considerable proportion of students of twenty-five or thirty years of age.

There is even a case where a college student remained out a term in order to attend a session of the Legislature to which he had been elected.