Dr.  Fisher  used  to  boast  laughingly  that  at  one  time  the
whole  school  consisted  of  himself  and  one  student,  Ira
Adams,  who  left,  without  graduating,  in  1866.  His
humor  put  the  situation  sententiously :  "At  that  time
the  whole  school,  including  the  faculty,  could  walk
under  one  umbrella  !  "

I  again  return  to  the  trying  date  of  Professor  Good-
rich's resignation.  In  1862,  as  has  been  noted,  the
failure  to  establish  the  needful,  the  indispensable,  fund
occasioning    that   withdrawal,    left   Dr.    Fisher    alone


148  MEMOIR  OF  EBENEZER  FISHER.
