Joseph Ward of Dakota

George Harrison Durand

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i.'!i ©nitiersiftpColumbia intftfCttpotlrtogork THE LIBRARIES Bequest of Frederic Bancroft 1860-1945 JOSEPH WARD OF DAKOTA REV. JOSEPH WARD, D.D. Founder and First President of Yankton College JOSEPH WARD OF DAKOTA GEORGE HARRISON DURAND THE PILGRIM PRESS ^OBTOnI new YOrtF CHlrAO p 1913Copyright, BY LUTHER H. GARY ^^X6uTPoio daXxKra-rjs-Homer's In Latin, his favorite study in the former home schools. Ward did become the first scholar in his class at Phil- lips, and was elected by the students and princi- pal to one of the six high "honors" at anni-the 35 JOSEPH WARD OF DAKOTA versary "Exhibition," where he delivered the Latin Oration. Like many another boy at Andover Joseph Ward had to earn part of his school expenses. The usual thing was sawing wood. The boys were wont to work in pairs, wielding the swift cross- cut, and doubtless many a lifelong friendship was there sealed, at some professor's woodpile, by drops of sweat that mingled together in the saw- becamedust. One of the boys whom Ward partnership of form-acquainted with in this toil, friendship, was James Brand, after-ing a lasting ward distinguished minister of the First Con-the gregational church Oberlin. But Ward foundat other means of eking out expenses, probably lucrative than the buck and saw. "We w^eremore living," writes Professor Churchill, "in the days of boarding clubs managed by the students them- selves one of the means of self-help.

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• Nombre de lectures: 5
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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i.'!i©nitiersiftpColumbia
intftfCttpotlrtogork
THE LIBRARIES
Bequest of
Frederic Bancroft
1860-1945JOSEPH WARD
OF DAKOTAREV. JOSEPH WARD, D.D.
Founder and First President of Yankton College