In those days there were not many buildings there, and room was very precious.

There were seven other boys in the same room with me; most of them, however, students who had been there for some time.

The sheets were quite a puzzle to me.

The first night I slept under both of them, and the second night I slept on top of them; but by watching the other boys I learned my lesson in this, and have been trying to follow it ever since and to teach it to others.
I was among the youngest of the students who were in Hampton at the time.

Most of the students were men and women--some as old as forty years of age.