systematic and orderly temperament whose experiments before the class
always came out brilliantly. His careful business-like methods were
greatly appreciated by the Regents and he was entrusted with the
oversight of the construction of the South College when it was erected
in 1849. So successful was he that he saved some $4,000 over the cost of
the first building and had enough bricks left besides to build a large
part of the Medical Building which was completed in the same year. Those
who knew him best supported him loyally in the great dispute which arose
over his administration of the affairs of the Chemical Laboratory and
their confidence in his uprightness and sterling integrity was justified
by the final decision in that most unfortunate case.

These were the men who taught the first class that was graduated from
the University in 1845. The same year saw two additions to the Faculty,
the Rev. Daniel D. Whedon, Hamilton, '28, who was elected to the chair
of Logic, Rhetoric, and History, and Dr. John H. Agnew, Dickinson
College, '23, who assumed the Professorship in the classics left vacant
by the death of Dr. Whiting. Both had a prominent share in University
affairs for a few years. Professor Whedon was a Methodist clergyman,
lank and angular in form and feature with a "considerable sprinkling of
vinegar at times in his ways of expressing himself," but, according to
our oldest living graduate, "his commanding presence, imperative logic
and _sesquipedalia verba_, always used with mathematical precision,
hammered truth into us and clinched it." Professor Agnew has been
described as a Greek from head to foot, the exact opposite of Dr.
Whedon, extremely careful in his dress and appearance and
correspondingly neat and precise in the expression of his thoughts. He
represented the Presbyterian and Congregational element in the
University. The reasons for the resignation of these two Professors in
1852 have already been suggested in the lack of unity and the sectarian
rivalries of their time.

Perhaps the most picturesque figure of this early group was Louis
Fasquelle, the first Professor of Modern Languages, whose widely used
text-books contributed not a little to the prestige of the University.
When he came in 1846, his chair was almost a new field in an American
college. Only a single term in French was given at first and in fact
neither he nor Dr. Sager, charged with the scientific course, were
required to give their