Sugar Grove and the Class of 1886: Being a Chapter From the Story of My Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Late in the Summer of 1884 my parents began to talk with me about sending me away to school the Coming school year. I was then several months past my fifteenth birthday, a slender frail looking boy, a little fonder oiz books than the ordinary boy, and though I was acquainted with the young people of. The Village and on the farms adjoining ours, I knew very few outside of our own school district. At first the suggestion was made that I attend the public schools of Batavia, and I had supposed the mat ter was practically decided. My aunt, Miss Ella York, now Mrsf C. H. Starkey, had been elected to a position in the grades of the Batavia schools and it seemed oppor tune that I accompany her. But a few days before the opening of the Sugar Grove school my mother entered'in to correspondence with' Mr. Frank H. Hall, the head of that institution, and the result was that here I attended school for the next two years. There were several possible reasons for this choice. Mr. Hall had built up a consider able reputation for the school in the nine years he had been conducting it, and the circle of its influence had even then been extended farther west than Waterman. Again, his nieces, Misses Finette and Hattie Norton had been popular teachers in the Waterman school, and were manifestly reflecting the training they had received under their uncle's tuition. Further, it is not improbable that the peculiar methods of teaching in vogue in the school and the ideas that were given pre-emineneeled my fatherto hope that I would acquire there a greater liking for farm affairs than I had ever displayed up to that time. But probably the chief determining faé'tor and the thing that appealed to my mother most of all was the fact that I could come home every Friday n1ght.

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