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Excerpt from Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity, 1748-1820
School. At the age of fifteen, after a brief experience in a sh0p, he was sent to Dr. Wheelock's school at Lebanon, Conn., to prepare to become a missionary to the In dians. In 1765 he entered Yale College, and graduated in 1769, in the same class with the elder President Dwight. The late Rev. E. H. Gillett, D.D., in an article in Ham's at Home, Feb., 1870, entitled Yale College One Hundred Years Ago, gives a few extracts from letters of mcclure and his schoolmate, David Avery. The former, under date of Oct. 30, 1765, writes to Dr. Wheelock of the dreadful way in which Freshmen are handled by the upper-class men. Freshmen, says he. 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.
