786.

[60] 1851.

[61] William A. Barron, who was graduated in 1787, and was
tutor from 1793 to 1800, was "among his contemporaries in
office ... social and playful, fond of _bon-mots_,
conundrums, and puns." Walking one day with Shapleigh and
another gentleman, the conversation happened to turn upon
the birthplace of Shapleigh, who was always boasting that
two towns claimed him as their citizen, as the towns,
cities, and islands of Greece claimed Homer as a native.
Barron, with all the good humor imaginable, put an end to
the conversation by the following epigrammatic
impromptu:--

"Kittery and York for Shapleigh's birth contest;
Kittery won the prize, but York came off the best."

[62] In Brady and Tate, "Hear, O my people."

[63] In Brady and Tate, "instruction."

[64] Watts, "hear."

[65] See BOHN.

[66] The Triennial Catalogue of Harvard College was first
printed in a pamphlet form in the year 1778.

[67] Jesse Olds, a classmate, afterwards a clergyman in a
country town.

[68] Charles Prentiss, a member of the Junior Class when this
was written; afterwards editor of the Rural
Repository.--_Buckingham's Reminiscences_, Vol. II. pp.
273-275.

[69] William Biglow was known in college by the name of Sawney,
and was frequently addressed by this sobriquet in after
life, by his familiar friends.

[70] Charles Pinckney Sumner,--afterwards a lawyer in Boston,
and for many years Sheriff of the County of Suffolk.

[71] Theodore Dehon, afterwards a clergyman of the Episcopal
Church, and Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina.

[72] Thomas Mason, a member of the class after Prentiss, said
to be the greatest _wrestler_ that was ever in College. He
was settled as a clergyman at Northfield, Mass.; resigned
his office some years after, and several times represented
that town in the Legislature of Massachusetts. See under
WRESTLING-MATCH.

[73] The Columbian Centinel, published at Boston, of which
Benjamin Russell was the editor.

[74] "Ashen," on _Ed.'s Broadside_.

[75] "A pot of grease,
A woollen fleece."--_Ed's Broadside_.

[76] "Rook."--_Ed.'s Broadside_. "Hook."--_Gent. Mag._, May,
1732.

[77] "Burrage."--_Ed.'