. McClure's magazine. nd gifts, oppressed by the lack of fession. It seemed to me that everybody variety in Andover life, originated this in- in Andover was afraid of them. I took nocent form of dissipation, it out in the cordial defiance of a born These festivities, like others in academic rebel. towns, were democratic to a degree amus- Then we had our tea-parties—theologi- ing or inspiring, according to the temper- cal, of course-when the studentscame to tea in al-phabetical order;and the Professortold his beststories; and theladies of the fam-ily were expectedto keep more orless quiet while
. McClure's magazine. nd gifts, oppressed by the lack of fession. It seemed to me that everybody variety in Andover life, originated this in- in Andover was afraid of them. I took nocent form of dissipation, it out in the cordial defiance of a born These festivities, like others in academic rebel. towns, were democratic to a degree amus- Then we had our tea-parties—theologi- ing or inspiring, according to the temper- cal, of course-when the studentscame to tea in al-phabetical order;and the Professortold his beststories; and theladies of the fam-ily were expectedto keep more orless quiet whilethe gentlementalked. But this,I should say, wasof the earliertime. And, of course,we had the occa-sional supply; andas for the clericalguest, in someshape he was al-ways with us. I remember theshocked expres-sion on the face ofa not very eminentminister, becauseI joined in theconversationwhen, in the ab-sence of my fa-thers wife, thenew mother, it fellto me to take thehead of the was truly astimulating con-. DR. EDWARDS A. PARK, FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN THE-OLOGY IN ANDOVER SEMINARY. From a photograph taken in 1862 by J. W. Black, Boston. anient of the spec-tator. The professorsbrilliantly-lighted drawing-rooms werethrown open tothe students andfamilies of theHill. Distin-guished men jos-tled the Academyboy who built thefurnace fire to payfor his education,and who might befound on the fac-ulty some day, inhis turn, or mighthimself acquire anenviable and well-earned celebrity. Eminent guestsfrom out of townstood elbow toelbow with poortheologues des-tined to the mis-sionary field, andpathetically ob-serving the An-dover levee as oneof the last occa-sions of civilizedgayety in which itmight be theirs toshare. Ladiesfrom Beacon versation, intellectual, and, like all clerical Street or from New York might be seen conversations, vivaciously amusing; and it chatting with some gentle figure in black, swept me in, unconsciously. I think this one of those widowed and b
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