the Federalists moved across the common and deposited the gun in a cellar, shouting, yelling, and calling the Democrats opprobrious names, while the latter hung about with responsive squeals; and these noises, with the ringing of the bell and the beating of the drum were enough to rouse the echoes from the Granite Hills and the Green Mountains.

The more moderate Republican students had not intended to join the Norwich celebration; but the course pursued by the college authorities converted them into active supporters of the movement. A cannon was procured from a neighboring town, and the party had their oration, dinner, and toasts. Their hilarity, however, was suddenly changed to sadness by a serious accident to their gunner. The piece was fired before he had entirely withdrawn the ramrod, by which means he lost a finger and suffered serious laceration of his hand, arm, and face.

Mr. Kendall characterized the oration on this occasion as "not fit to be spoken by an American," being "too Frenchified"; but the toasts prepared by a committee consisting of Lieutenant-Governor Brigham and his classmates, Carter and Willard, he pronounced excellent.

Without any effort on his part, Kendall had now acquired a high degree of popularity among the students. It was exhibited. in his selection to deliver a quarterly oration before the Social Friends, three fourths of whom were bitterly arrayed against him one year before. He was also one of the number selected from his class as members of the Phi Beta Kappa.

On the 11th of August died the Hon. John Hubbard, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Dartmouth College. Though not a man of brilliant talents, he was universally beloved and respected for his gentle disposition, his faithfulness as an instructor, and his unimpeachable integrity. He left a widow and four children, two of whom were then members of the Freshman class. The property left by him was insufficient to support his family, who were objects of universal sympathy. The Junior class presented a mourning suit to the widow, which she received with uncontrollable emotion.

On the 15th of August the members of the Junior class were examined and admitted to the Senior standing. On the 22d was Commencement, and on the same evening Kendall started for home on horseback in company with his classmates, Howe and

Ainsworth. The next day they reached Howe's residence in Jaffrey. Here, upon the invitation of his friend Howe, he intended to remain over the 24th for the purpose of ascending Monadnock mountain; but being deterred from that enterprise by clouds hanging around the head of the old monarch, he passed on to New Ipswich, where he was received by his friends with the most flattering cordiality. He was earnestly pressed to take charge of their school for the third season; but he declined committing himself, in the hope of obtaining a more lucrative situation. Having spent several days with his relatives and friends in New Ipswich and Mason, he reached home on the 31st of August, where he was pained to find his mother very low with dropsy, from which there were but faint hopes of her recovery.

On the 12th of September he attended a meeting of the Middlesex Musical Society, at Townsend, and joined in their perform ances. This society and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College were making a concerted effort to change the character of the music then used in the churches of New England, and to that end had arranged to have a public exhibition at Concord, N. H., on the 19th day of that month. The reform proposed, was to substitute the old-fashioned slow and solemn music for the light, jangling fugues which were in general use, and it was hoped to effect a change in the popular taste by the public performance of the best psalm-tunes and other pieces written by the most celebrated composers. At this meeting in Townsend information was received that a long-established Musical Society at Amherst, N. H., called the Handelian, had fallen into the ranks of the reformers.

Several days were spent by Kendall in visiting his friends in Groton and Dunstable, and in collecting money for his father, after which he started for the college by way of Concord, N. H., spending a day there to take part in the musical celebration. About forty performers were present, and though the day was rainy there was a large audience. An excellent oration on the object of the societies was delivered by the Rev. Samuel Worcester, of Salem, and his tribute to the memory of Professor Hubbard, who at the time of his death was President of the Handel Society and had projected that meeting, drew tears from a large portion of the audience. The music was of a very high order, though not so perfect as the separate performances of the Handel Society. Although the societies had practised the same tunes preparatory to this ex

hibition, and each was very perfect in its way, yet, when they came to sing together, slight variances developed themselves, which, in a moderate degree, impaired the general effect. The exhibition, however, passed off with much applause. Of the male performers, Jonathan Curtis, and of the female, Miss Mary and Miss Annette Woodward, all members of the Handel Society, attracted particular attention and applause.

CHAPTER III.

ON the 20th of October Mr. Kendall returned to college in company with his classmate, Jonathan Curtis, and the next day engaged a room and board in a private house kept by a widow lady named Davis.

On the 2d of November the appointments for Senior quarterday were given out. According to custom, this was done by the class voting by ballot. Kendall was surprised to find himself elected to the first appointment, apparently by an unanimous vote. He was equally surprised at the elections to the second and some of the succeeding appointments, which fell upon young men deemed by him undeserving of the positions in the class thus assigned to them. Observing a cluster of students in a corner of the room, he approached and found them looking over an entire list of appointments already made out, and that the elections thus far were in accordance with the list. The thought at once flashed upon his mind, that there was a concerted scheme, well matured, to place certain young men in positions to which their merits did not entitle them, and that his name had, without consulting him, been placed at the head of the list as a cover of the meditated injustice to others. At his request the list was handed to him, and mounting a bench and inviting the attention of the assembly, he remarked, in a jocular manner, that somebody, it appeared, had already performed the service for which the class was called together, and as they had thus far ratified the arrangement prepared to their hands, it seemed unnecessary to waste time in voting upon each case separately. He therefore moved that the entire list be adopted just as arranged. Though the managers looked blank and raised a feeble opposition, the motion was carried by acclamation and a committee appointed to communicate the result to the faculty. Kendall immediately called on the President and informed him of the whole matter, stating that he did not consider it any honor to receive the appointment assigned to him by caucus

management and expressing the hope that the entire proceedings would be set aside and the class directed to go into a new election. The faculty, however, recognized as legitimate the appointments which had been assigned by separate votes, and directed the class to reassemble and fill up the list in the same way. But few attended the second meeting, and the caucus managers voted themselves, without exception, into the places which had been assigned them in the original list. Kendall had accomplished his object in satisfying every one that he had no hand in the caucus arrangement which placed him at the head of his class. But he exclaims in his journal: "Who, said I to myself, thought, Sophomore year, that these fellows would ever give the first appointment to 'Giles Scroggins'?" This was one of the nicknames applied to him during the "treating" excitement of 1809. He adds, "College popularity is variable as the wind."

On the 3d of November the father of Zerah Colburn, the celebrated boy mathematician, called with his son at Kendall's boarding-house. In his journal Mr. Kendall says of this prodigy: His father gives the following account of him. He was born six years ago the first day of last September. He appeared to know even less than common children when one year old. Last spring he was observed to be talking of figures with the other children, when he appeared to answer questions in the multiplication-table much more readily than his elders. He, however, attracted no particular notice until last August, when his father observing his readiness in figures, began to question him, and soon found that he was better acquainted with the multiplication-table than himself. The affair soon spread, and the boy was taken to Montpelier and Burlington and examined. Being poor, the father had determined to take his child to some of the larger towns and cities of the country in the hope of raising money to give him an education. "Professors Adams and Shurtleff examined the boy in private and afterwards in public. They were confounded. Professor Adams, himself an eminent mathematician, said he had never seen, heard, or read of anything like it. He could multiply together any two numbers under a hundred in less than a minute. He could tell, apparently without thought, how many days there are in any number of years less than thirty, and in any number over thirty and up to a hundred upon a minute's reflection. After being told the denominations of weights and measures, he would reduce one to