Memorial Alpheus Spring Packard

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483232792
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Memorial Alpheus Spring Packard written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorial Alpheus Spring Packard: 1798-1884 The week-days at Wiscasset were well filled with study under his father's direction, with the chores that always fall to the lot of a lad living upon a farm, and to a much less extent with the sports which sea-shore boys never find wearisome. From this busy, well guarded home life he went in his thirteenth year to Exeter, N. H., to finish his preparation for college at Phillips Academy, then, as now, in the foremost rank of fitting schools. Of the privileges he there enjoyed, Professor Packard Spoke in grateful acknowledgment and a most pleasant vein of reminiscence at the centen nial celebration of the institution in 1883. In regard to the use he made of these privileges, the testimony can be cited Of his famous classmate, George Bancroft, who writes: Strong and healthy, sober-minded and industrious, and in his studies very successful, he bore a high character every way; he was at home on the play-ground as well as at his books. The following year, September, 1812, young Pack ard, having passed his examination in the Greek Testa ment, Virgil, Cicero, and the four rules of Arithmetic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.