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behold a landscape picturesque and lovely beyond the power of
description. The quiet scenes of his youth, the simple pleasures, and
the common amusements of village life, varied with few excitements,
could not have been without their effect upon the mind of a sensitive
boy. To what age he was left to these alone, I do not know.

"He fitted for college mainly at the academy in Salisbury, and entered
in 1812. Nature had done more for him than his instructors, and he
very soon took the position, which he ever maintained, as intellectual
leader in a class, which, though small, numbered among its members
several young men of distinguished ability. In that little community
he was at once the best scholar and the most popular man. 'In looks,'
writes one of his class-mates,[41] 'Haddock was decidedly the most
striking man in the class. He was tall and well-proportioned. He had
an intellectual cast of features, a well-chiseled profile,--and
altogether you might pronounce him a man intended for a scholar, and
destined, if he lived, to make his mark in the world. I, who entered
college a mere boy, singled him out the first day. He was always an
industrious student. He never failed of a recitation, so far as I can
remember, and he never failed to be prepared for it.'

[41] Professor Torrey, of Burlington.

"Adding thus to the distinction of attainment and scholarship so much
beauty of person, so much modesty, gentleness, and propriety of
demeanor, it was natural that he should be regarded as a model young
man, nor was there wanting that profounder moral element, without
which no character can be complete.

"The year 1815 was memorable in the religious history of the college.
The period immediately preceding had been marked by unusual religious
depression. In some classes only one person, and but a few in any of
them, made profession of a serious religious purpose. Of this small
number, there were some, however, whose feelings were deep, and whose
lives were exemplary. To them,--not more, perhaps, than eight or ten
in all,--was due, under the Divine favor, the moral regeneration of
the college. First among those who, in that 'Great awakening,' avowed
his purpose of a new life, was Mr. Haddock, then in the summer of his
Junior year. The avowal was open, unreserved, and decisive, and, it is
almost unnecessary to add, produced a strong sensation. From that time
no one in college exerted a more positive influence in favor of