•'  After  the  appetites  of  all  were  satisfied,  toasts  were  read  and
responded  to  by  some  of  the  students  for  the  classes  and  by  the
Doctor  for  the  school  ;  and  I  call  to  mind  that  then  pleasant
jokes  and  true,  sober  words  fell  from  his  lips  to  cheer  or
guide  us.  We  can  see  him  now,  standing  there  in  manly
strength,  yet  with  the  twinkle  in  his  eye  which  we  who  were
near  him  have  often  seen  ;  and  we  felt  toward  him  not  only
the  respect  due  to  the  master  mind,  but  the  friendliness  won


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by  the  warm  human  heart.  Yes,  among  the  many  memories
which  we  cherish  is  that  of  Dr.  Fisher  and  his  wife,  on  Thanks-
giving Day,  among  their  '  boys.'

"But,  it  is  simple  justice  to  add,  these  joyful  Thanksgiving
gatherings,  arduous  as  was  the  care  they  brought  to  the  Presi-
dent's wife,  were  but  a  fraction  of  the  large  service  she  ren-
dered the  school  by  her  motherly  care  of  the  ''  boys,'  as  she
tenderly  called  them.  At  the  opening  of  the  school,  when
there  were  only  a  half-dozen  students  and  one  teacher,  and  no
apparatus,  library,  or  conveniences  ;  when  these  students  came
from  comfortable  homes  and  the  society  of  friends  to  board  in
the  bare,  cheerless  college-rooms,  —  had  it  not  been  for  Mrs.
