We had also a course of lectures from Jared Sparks on American history.

They were generally dull and heavy, but occasionally made intensely interesting when he described some stirring event of the Revolutionary War.

We hung breathless on his account of the treason of Arnold and its detection and the class burst out into applause when he ended,--a thing the like of which never happened in any time in College.

There was a little smattering of instruction in modern languages, but it was not of much value.

We had a French professor named Viau whom the boys tormented unmercifully.