Life and sermons of Jonathan Allen : Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., president of Alfred University

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Chapter I

Alfred in Early Times — Removal of Ancestors from Rhode Island to Alfred, N. Y. — Six Weeks' Journeying through Forests — ^Judge Clark Crandall, the Pioneer Father of the New Settlement — The New Home — Birthplace of Jonathan Allen 17

Chapter II

Boyhood — Care of Younger Brothers and Sisters — Visits to Grandparents — First Map of Alfred Made by Father Allen — Work in the Home — Early Habits of Reading — Industry Cultivated — Sense of Justice Tried — First Interest in Temperance Work — Sabbath in the Home — Attendance at Church — Religious Culture a Safeguard to the Community — Social Life of Pioneers — First Removal 21

Chapter III

Select School Established— Chopping Wood to Pay Tuition — The Pupils Providing Their Own Seats — First Declamation — Religious Awakening — Making Maple Sugar — Sports and Games of Young People — Erection of the "Horned Bug" — ^J. R. Irish as Teacher — Wm. C. Kenyon Following in Charge of the School — Public Examination at Close of Term — Dramatic Entertainment 28

Chapter IV

Pioneer Life in Wisconsin— Decides for an Education and Returns to Alfred — Welcomed by Friends — Life-work Begun — Teachers at Alfred — Assistant in Mathematics. 35

Chapter V

The Franklin Lyceum and Its Leading Members — The School Breezy with Reforms— Temperance at Alfred — Schools in Little Genesee and Ceres — Return to Alfred — New School Buildings — Anniversary Days — Loading Sand — Making Brick — General Interest in the School — Caring for the Sick — New Societies Organized 40

Chosen President— Methods of Teaching— Elocution— Ordination— Sermons and Lectures — Chapel Lectures 87

Chapter XIII

Steinhei.m — Collecting Specimens in Vacations — Alfred Favorable for the Study of Geology and Paleontology— South American Shells— Exterior of Building to Represent Geological Formation at Alfred— Interior Representative of Native Woods— Archaeology — Numismatics — Keramics — Land and Fresh Water Shells— Oology— Paleontology — Miscellany 94

The Home — Memories of the Home — President Allen's Lectures — "The Legacy of the Present to the Future" — "Home and Parent " 118

CONTENTS. XI

Chapter XVII

Vacation Tour in Europe— "The Cram Club"— Outward Bound— The Trip Northward — Pleasantries — Ireland— Giant's Ring^The Home of Shakespeare—"New Place"— The Church of the Holy Trinity — Concerning Schools — Rugby— Oxford — Cambridge — Making Hay — Chamouni and Mt. Blanc— Mar de Glace— Up Vesuvius— How the Rest Happened 125

The Last Year— Work during Winter Evenings — Anniversary — Conclusion 158

Chapter XXI

Memorial Services— Dr. Maxson's Prayer — Order of Exercises — Tributes from Trustees, Teachers, and Students — Extracts from Alfred Sun — -Remarks by President Wiiitford, of Milton, Wisconsin — Short Poems from E. H. Everett, E. E. Kenyon, Mary Bassett Clarke 161

Chapter XXII

Views of President Allen's Character — On Behalt of Public Interests, from Judge McLennan's Address — On Behalf of Moral Reforms, by Mr. P. A. Burdick — A Completed Life-work, Judge N. M. Hubbard 171