ix weeks. This was all.

Professor Hale, however, addressed himself to his work with
characteristic activity and zeal. He proceeded to give each year to
the college classes a separate course of over thirty lectures, and
discharged the expenses of them himself. He substituted a larger and
more scientific text-book for that in use, and obtained an allowance
of forty or more recitations instead of thirty. He laid the foundation
of the cabinet of minerals by giving five hundred specimens,
classifying and labeling all additions, leaving the collection in
respectable condition with 2,300 specimens. He gave annually about
twenty lectures in Geology and Mineralogy; and for some years was the
regular instructor of the Senior class in the Philosophy of Natural
History. For two years, also, he took charge of the recitations in
Hebrew, and occasionally took part in other recitations; and, with
another, served as building committee during the whole process of
repairing and erecting the college edifices.

December 11, 1827, Professor Hale wrote, in a family letter, "I have
made out a plan, for the repair of the College building, and the
addition of a building for libraries, etc., for the use of Trustees at
their next session. It takes with the president mightily, and I think
they will make it go."

And in another family letter, the first after returning from a
journey, under date of March 20, 1828, he wrote:

"My arrival at Hanover was very opportune. I was looked for for
sometime, and letters were about being despatched for me.... I have
the honor of being one-half of the building committee, Professor
Chamberlain being the other moiety, and we are commencing operations.
The prospects of the College are now so bright, _that the plan I at
first proposed, and which was adopted by the Trustees_, is abandoned,
and we are preparing to erect two brick buildings, three stories in
height, and fifty feet by seventy. One for students' rooms, and the
other for public rooms.... And what is more comforting, our funds are
improving so much that the building will not distress us very much if
the $30,000 should not be realized. A good many old debts have been
collected, and are coming in, by which one building could be erected.
About $13,000 have already been subscribed, and subscriptions are
daily arriving."

All this was voluntary and gratuitous work. It is no wonder that
students thus cared for should respond, as they did, with enthusiasm