Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . s about to take my leave,when he suddenly added, There is one more matter tobe settled. Students are all required to attend church onSundays, and they choose what-ever church they please at theopening of the year, and thatchurch they must regularly one will you that our branch ofFriends was not represented inNew England, I hesitated a mo-ment whether to choose theFriends meeting, or the UnitarianChurch or the doctors own ser-service which was held regularlythen in Manning Hall over the
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . s about to take my leave,when he suddenly added, There is one more matter tobe settled. Students are all required to attend church onSundays, and they choose what-ever church they please at theopening of the year, and thatchurch they must regularly one will you that our branch ofFriends was not represented inNew England, I hesitated a mo-ment whether to choose theFriends meeting, or the UnitarianChurch or the doctors own ser-service which was held regularlythen in Manning Hall over thelibrary. • Seeing my hesitation, he added in that stern manner of his that almost fright-ened me, though I was not easily frightened, Youngman, when a man has lost his religion, I tell him Provi-dence is a good place to come and find it, for we have allsorts here. To this I replied at once, I will go and hearyou, doctor, and he took my name as one to attendservice in Manning Hall, and I went regularly throughmy course at Brown, and never had occasion to regretmy Edward Hicks Magill, 1852 In the spring of 52 our class was reciting to the doctorour lesson in moral philosophy. We usually had aboutten or twelve pages, and the manner of recitation wasthis : The doctor first called upon some member of theclass to give a synopsis of the lesson. A perfect lesson ^^ Memories of Brown consisted in naming all of the topics in their regular orderwithout mistake, and with no suggestion from the presi-dent. Then the next man in order was called, and hemust take up and discuss the first topic, the next man thenext, and so on, till the close; when the doctor himselfwould enlarge upon the subject, giving very interestingand suggestive talks, but these were rarely intermingledwith the recitation, he doing his talking after we had allbeen heard without interruption. If the doctor had toquestion a student to get him to clear up properly a pointnot fully discussed, that always counted ag
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