, and heads, and
inscriptions of every kind. The faculty do not know what you wish in
this respect, in regard to the new accommodations which the Trustees
have now provided for you, and which you are soon to enter. They have
had them fitted up for you handsomely, and if you wish to have them kept
in good order, we will assist you. If the students think proper to
express by a vote, or in any other way, their wish to keep them in good
order, we will engage to have such incidental injuries, as may from time
to time occur, immediately repaired. Such injuries will, of course, be
done; for whatever may be the wish and general opinion of the whole, it
is not to be expected that every individual, in so large a community,
will be careful. If, however, as a body, you wish to have the building
preserved in its present state, and will, as a body, take the necessary
precautions, we will do our part."

The students responded to this appeal most heartily. They passed a vote,
expressing a desire to preserve the premises in order, and for many
years, and for ought I know, to the present hour, the whole is kept as a
room occupied by gentlemen should be kept. At some other colleges, and
those, too, sustaining the very highest rank among the institutions of
the country, the doors of the public buildings are sometimes _studded
with nails, as thick as they can possibly be driven, and then covered
with a thick coat of sand, dried into the paint, as a protection from
the knives of the students_!!

The particular methods, by which the teacher is to interest his pupils
in his various plans for their improvement, cannot be very fully
described here. In fact, it does not depend so much on the methods he
adopts, as upon the view which he himself takes of these plans, and the
_tone and manner in which he speaks of them to his pupils_.

A teacher, for example, perhaps on the first day of his labors in a new
school, calls a class to read. They pretend to form a line, but it
crooks in every direction. One boy is leaning back against a desk;
another comes forward as far as possible, to get near the fire; the rest
lounge in every position and in every attitude. John is holding up his
book high before his face, to conceal an apple, from which he is
endeavoring to secure an enormous bite. James is by the same sagacious
device, concealing a whisper, which he is addressing to his next
neighbor, and Moses is seeking amusement by crowding and elbowing the
l