. The Forester . omoted to the rankof Lieutenant n 63rd Illinois Infantry, killed in Tennessee,October 5, 1863. Starkweather, Ralph E., M. D. Entered WilliamsCollege as sophomore in 1862, was graduated in 1865. , College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, medicine in Chicago until 1892. Resides at 1223Grove Street, Evanston. Patterson, John C. Went from Lake Forest in 1 862to Yale; did not graduate. Lawyer in Chicago, 503—59Clark Street; resides 1350 Wilson studies of the freshman year included Cicero De Officis and Livy, XenophonsMemorabilia and Homer, Geometry a
. The Forester . omoted to the rankof Lieutenant n 63rd Illinois Infantry, killed in Tennessee,October 5, 1863. Starkweather, Ralph E., M. D. Entered WilliamsCollege as sophomore in 1862, was graduated in 1865. , College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, medicine in Chicago until 1892. Resides at 1223Grove Street, Evanston. Patterson, John C. Went from Lake Forest in 1 862to Yale; did not graduate. Lawyer in Chicago, 503—59Clark Street; resides 1350 Wilson studies of the freshman year included Cicero De Officis and Livy, XenophonsMemorabilia and Homer, Geometry and Conic Sections, with Declamation and EnglishComposition. The requirements for admission were not greatly lower in quantity thanthey are now, but it is interesting to notice that the collegiate age was lower, as studentscould be admitted at fourteen. The college teaching was done chiefly by Professor W. C. Dickinson, afterwardspastor for a time of the church, and by the Principal of the Academy, S. F. Miller,. 15 :THE- 1911 FORE-JTE-R who a little later devoted himself chiefly to the college work, and was succeeded in theAcademy by Milford C. Bultler. Mr. C. T. Dickinson, a tutor, also gave instructionto Freshmen. The work was limited in range, but of such a nature that Dr. Stark-weather was admitted to level standing in Williams in the Autumn of 1862. The life of the school and community was in a manner primitive, but was in the air, and everyone lent a hand to everything that was going. A half-holiday was granted now and then on condition that the students help shingle the churchor grub stumps out of the streets. The boys were invited to the village tea partiesand were made to feel themselves partners in all activities, social and religious, as wellas educational. The life had all the zest as well as the hard work of that of pioneers. The effort to maintain a college failed only because the civil war absorbed all theenergy that did not go into the indu
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