. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. the time of his junioryear in college, he had done sufficient extra work in collegeto cover the two years difference in preparation for theclassical and scientific courses and in 1885 was enrolled asa classical without dropping back a single class, a featnever before or since accomplished in the history of thecollege. During his four years at Knox, he frequently tookpart in public exhibitions of the college and literary so-cieties, as well as participating in several plays. His repu-ta
. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. the time of his junioryear in college, he had done sufficient extra work in collegeto cover the two years difference in preparation for theclassical and scientific courses and in 1885 was enrolled asa classical without dropping back a single class, a featnever before or since accomplished in the history of thecollege. During his four years at Knox, he frequently tookpart in public exhibitions of the college and literary so-cieties, as well as participating in several plays. His repu-tation in college rested largely on his skill as a debater,his varied and wide reading and his reputation as an all-round athlete. He played baseball and football during theentire four years of the college course, being captain in hissenior year of the Knox Baseball Nine and participating inthe first inter-collegiate football game ever played betweena Knox football eleven and that of another college. Thiswas the game between Knox and Monmouth, played inthe month of November, 1885. During his course at Knox. No. 225—JOHN EDWARD FROST. SEE PAGE 116. IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 121 college he stood very high as a scholar and was classorator at the class day exercises on his graduation in 1886. In the fall of 1886 Thomas Gold Frost entered withabout 250 others (mostly college graduates), as a memberof the class of 1888 at the Columbia Law School. Herefor two years he studied under the tutelage of his fatherscollege friend (at Hamilton) that prince of teachers—Theodore W. Dwdght. During both his junior and senioryears he took, in connection with his work at the lawschool, all the lectures of the School of Political Scienceunder Dean John W. Burgess and his associates. In his junior year he was elected one of the twelvemembers chosen from his class for membership in theChoate Club. He also tutored during this entire the fall of 1897. he. in company with Paul K. Ames(Yale 86). fo
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