{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3204", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Library of Congress,\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nChap\\nShelf.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A SKETCH\\nOF THE\\nLife and Professional Services\\nOF\\nISAAC SAMS,\\nFOB FIFTY YEARS A DISTINGUISHED TEACHER.\\nBY\\nHENRY S. DOGGETT\\nWITH SOME REMINISCENCES BY AN OLD BOY\\nCINCINNATI:\\nPeter G. Thomson, Publisher.\\n1880.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1880,\\nPETER G. THOMSON.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "jlnstription.\\nTO THE TEACHERS OF OHIO IS INSCRIBED THIS\\nSLIGHT TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF ONE\\nOF THE NOBLEST OF THEIR NUMBER.\\nHillshoro, 0., June, 1880. H. S. D.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThis sketch of Professor Isaac Sams was commenced with the\\nintention of comprising a few pages to be read at a Teachers\\nInstitute. It grew under the pen of the writer until this volume\\nwas made. A prominent Ohio Educator to whom the manuscript\\nwas read, says A character so worthy and original in many of\\nits features, belonging in its professional side to a time so rapidly\\npassing away, ought, it seems to me, to be preserved for those who\\nare to come after us as a striking example of what can be accom-\\nplished by downright manliness under unfavorable circumstances.\\nSuch stories are always encouraging to earnest youth.\\nThere are others who might have done the work more\\nthoroughly than it is done in these pages, but none with better\\nintentions. As an old pupil of Prof. Saras, he indulges the hope\\nthat this work of a leisure hour may help to keep fresh the\\nmemory of our beloved teacher in the breasts of those who loved\\nand appreciated him.\\nAcknowledgement is made of obligations incurred by the writer\\nto Mrs. Anne M. Sams and to Hon. John W. Steel.\\nH. S. D.\\nHillsboro, Ohio, June, 1880.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nInscription, 3\\nPreface, 5\\nChapter I. His birth, childhood and youth, 9\\nChapter II. Life in the Mediterranean, .13\\nChapter III. Work in London and Emigration to America, 17\\nChapter IV. Arrives in Baltimore and secures a School, 20\\nChapter V. First experiences as a Teacher in America, 26\\nChapter VI. Kemoval to the White House, and the arri-\\nval of his Family, 31\\nChapter VII. IJis Work at Eock Hill Academy and at\\nBrooklyn, 35\\nChapter VIII. Emigrates to Ohio, 40\\nChapter IX. Takes Charge of the Hillsboro Academy, 44\\nChapter X. Keminiscences by an Old Boy, 47\\nChapter XL Reminiscences continued, .51\\nChapter XII. Reminiscences continued, 55\\nChapter XIII. Reminiscences concluded, .60\\nChapter XIV. Mr. Sams work in the Common Schools,\\nand some Extracts from his Letters, 69\\nChapter XV. His Last Days and his Death, .80", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A Sketch of the Life and Professional Services\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094OK\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nProfessor ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nIsaac Sams was born in Bath, England, on the\\n12th of November, 1788. He was the eldest son of\\nJoseph and Maria Sams, of Taunton, Somersetshire,\\nEngland. His father was a Baptist minister; and\\ntwo years after the birth of Isaac, removed from\\nBath to Dublin, and preached on a circuit in the\\nmountains of Wicklow, a maritime county of the\\nprovince of Leinster, Ireland. At an early age,\\nIsaac was sent to one of the best schools in Dublin,\\nand early evinced that desire for knowledge which\\nwas his distinguishing characteristic through life.\\nWhen he was ten years of age, sickness, suffering,\\nand death entered his father s household. He and\\na younger sister were both taken down with scarlet\\nfever. The father attended on one and the mother\\non the other. The children recovered, but the father\\nsickened and died. The shock of the father s death\\nprostrated the wearied mother, and a few days after-", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "10 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nward she followed her husband to the grave. Soon\\nthe household was broken up. The sister was\\nresigned to the care of Mary, Viscountess Carleton,\\nwho was her godmother. Isaac was consigned to the\\ncare of a cousin residing at Rathdrum, a town on\\nthe mail road from Wexford to Dublin. This cousin\\nwas a manufacturer of woolen goods, and the young\\nIsaac became an inmate of his family. Here he was\\nemployed to run errands and do such other work as\\nsuited his strength. When he had leisure, he\\nemployed it in reading the few books he had brought\\nwith him from his old home in Dublin. A neighbor,\\na solitary old man, but a great reader, loaned him\\nother books.\\nHere was begun his education under circumstan-\\nces that would have disheartened a youth less\\nanxious to learn. He continued to read and study,\\nand sometimes would write down his thoughts and\\nobservations on what he had read. Some of his\\nwritings attracted the attention of Captain Craw-\\nford, a lodger in the house, who was greatly pleased\\nwith the talent evinced by the lad, and signified a\\ndesire to procure for him a better position. The\\nonly place the captain could obtain was one which\\nhe did not think good enough for him, and the boy\\nwas left to drudge in his menial position. Soon\\nthis became unbearable, owing to the tyranny of a\\nmember of the household, and he left the house,\\nhatless, one morning, and took the road to Dublin.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 11\\nHe walked all the day and slept in a tree at night,\\nbut the next da}^ returned to his old place.\\nHe resumed his old work and for the next few\\nmonths was absorbed in religious reflections and\\nduties. He attended church regularly, and profited\\nby the teachings of his minister. He was soon to\\nreceive his first communion, and sought to prepare\\nhimself fitly for it. During his preparations he\\nsubmitted himself to a fast from Thursday evening\\nuntil Sunday noon. At this time his life was pure\\nand good, and the religious principles which guided\\nhim through after life became part of his nature.\\nThe monotony of the boy s life was little varied\\nuntil his sixteenth year. Then, one day, his master\\nhaving doubted his word in regard to his conduct,\\nhe asked for his indentures and for permission to\\nleave. This was granted and, with the few shillings\\nobtained by selling his few precious books, he again\\ntook the road to Dublin.\\nHe entered this city on the oth of May, 1805, and\\nat once procured lodging in a family where there\\nwere several small children. For six weeks he wan-\\ndered along the streets and quays looking for employ-\\nment. Just about the time he was thinking of\\nenlisting, he obtained a situation in a lumber yard\\nat \u00c2\u00a320 a year. His duties here consisted in measur-\\ning the lumber and keeping the books. Leaving\\nthis situation he became next engaged in a large\\ncarpet warehouse. It was a part of his duty to take", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\norders, and this made it necessary for him to visit\\nthe houses of the nobility. Among the houses he\\nso visited was that of the Duke of Bedford, then\\nLord Lieutenant of Ireland. There he saw the\\nDuchess, and the late John Russell and his brother,\\nwho were then boys younger than himself. His life\\nnow begun to have some ray of sunshine. When\\nnot occupied with his business duties, he visited all\\npoints of interest in the city. The sites of the\\nprincipal buildings, Phoenix Park, the Castle, and\\nthe Pigeon House were his favorite resorts. His old\\nhome on George street was often visited, possessing\\nas it did, for him, a mournful attraction. Often\\nlingering on the quay he gazed upon the opposite\\nshore of England, where his sister lived, the only\\none of his family left, and for whom his heart\\nyearned with a brother s love.\\nHe formed a plan for visiting her and soon after-\\nward, on the 18th of April, 1809, he left Dublin for\\nLondon.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 13\\nCHAPTER II.\\nThe subject of our sketch reached London on the\\n24th of April, and immediately called upon his sister\\nat the residence of Viscount Carleton, in Hanover\\nSquare. He found her in good health and enjoying\\nthe friendship and patronage of Lady Carleton.\\nThrough this lady, the history of young Isaac\\nbecame known to Lord Carleton, who offered to\\nobtain for him a place in the navy. His lordship\\nthen introduced him to Sir John Colfoys, Treasurer\\nof Greenwich Hosj)ital, and also to Admiral Pick-\\nmore, who gave him a position on his staff as Secre-\\ntary. His first service was in the Baltic, on board\\nthe man of war Caledonia, and other vessels, among\\nwhich was the ill-fated St. George, which went\\ndown the following year, with all on board. This\\nvessel had been so injured in passing through the\\nKattegat that it was ordered on the docks for repairs\\non arriving at England. Mr. Sams was about\\nreturning to it when it was refitted, but was sud-\\ndenly ordered to join the fleet destined for service\\nin the Mediterranean Sea. By this fortunate trans-\\nfer he escaped the sad fate that overtook his com-\\nrades the following year.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nThe fleet sailed for the Mediterranean in Febru-\\nary, 1810, to engage in active operations against\\nthe French.\\nThe city of Cadiz, in Spain, was at this time\\nbesieged by the French, but their eflforts to take the\\nplace had been unsuccessful. The English had\\ntaken Cuidad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and had driven\\nthe French from Madrid. Lord Wellington was\\nnow operating against the French in the northern\\nprovinces of Spain and on the frontiers of Portugal,\\nand it was to assist his movements that the fleet\\nwas ordered to the Mediterranean.\\nDuring the next three years the squadron was\\nin almost constant activity, and the vessel on which\\nMr. Sams served was in many severe actions. Still\\nhis duties were very light, and he had much time\\nfor study. The one desire for an education was\\never uppermost in his mind, and he let no means\\nfor improvement pass by. One of his friends had\\non board a good stock of useful books and placed\\ntheir use at his disposal. Among other studies, he\\ncommenced to learn the French language, and soon\\nacquired sufficient knowledge of it to become well\\nacquainted with French history and literature. He\\nnext took up the study of Latin and Greek, and of\\nRoman and English history. In the midst of the\\nstirring scenes around him he was a close and ear-\\nnest student, but this did not prevent him taking\\ngreat interest in all the movements of the fleet.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 15\\nHis associates were a light-hearted, merry set, and\\nhe was often with them in the midst of the fight.\\nIn after days Mr. Sams sometimes spoke of his\\nlife in the Mediterranean, and told of comrades shot\\ndown by his side and of other tragic events that\\ntranspired around him. In a letter written when\\nin his eighty-third year, he alludes to his life on the\\nman of war. The lady to whom it was written had\\nsailed to India by way of England, France, and the\\nSuez Canal. In the answer to her letter, he says\\nIt is well that you should have a taste of a storm\\nat sea. The marvellous power of the wind on vast\\nmasses of water is a thing to be witnessed and felt,\\nand in its awful majesty never to be forgotten. It\\nis, however, pleasant for us to remember how you\\nhave been favored on the branky North Sea and the\\nspiteful channel, as on the gentle Gulf of Venice.\\nThen that sweet, calm night beneath the unclouded\\nmoon! You cannot think how many memories\\nwere stirred by that passage in your dear letter.\\nFor three years I was floating on that most lovely of\\nseas and how often it has been my delight to pace\\nthe spacious deck the long night through, my soul\\nravished with the glory of the firmament and with\\nthanksgiving to God for that his mercy endureth\\nforever.\\nThat is the season in which we think most ten-\\nderly of those we love, longing for some communion\\nwith the dear absent ones, in that still and solemn", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nhour beneath the clear, dark blue sky, studded with\\nstars that shine with a splendor, elsewhere in the\\nNorthern Hemisphere unknown. In 1811, the\\ngrandest of comets, Halley s, during many weeks\\nmade its march among the bright particular stars\\ndimming their perennial brilliancy with its transi-\\ntory refulgence. You will not wonder at the pas-\\nsionate affection with which I recollect those sweet\\nand blessed nights, even though it is more than\\nsixty 3^ears ago. Often then it happened that the\\nofficer on the deck was either one of my own friends\\nor a man with a heart open to benign influences of\\nthe wonders of nature, with whom it was an advan-\\ntage to enjoy an hour s converse. Indeed, on ship\\nor on shore, there is always sympathy and help for\\nthem that need, or even for them who do not reject\\nit. And you saw one sunset I hope it was superb\\nWe often see from our hills here most beautiful sun-\\nsets, and less often sunrises of great splendor, but I\\nmust say that the gorgeous resplendence of the ris-\\ning and the setting sun in the region of the Medi-\\nterranean far surpasses all I have seen elsewhere.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 17\\nCHAPTER III.\\nAt the close of the war, Mr. Sams returned to\\nEngland, and his friend Lord Carleton obtained for\\nhim a position as corresponding clerk in the Treas-\\nury Department of Greenwich Hospital, of which\\nSir John Colfoys was treasurer. While engaged\\nhere, he boarded in the family of Thomas Knowlder\\nwhose son was an associate in the office. He became\\nwell acquainted with the other members of the\\nfamily, among whom was a young daughter, Mary.\\nThe latter had a suitor who had been paying atten-\\ntion to her for some four or five years. Mr. Sams\\nbecame attached to her, and one day when a merry\\nparty were joking Miss Mary about her dilatory\\nsuitor, Mr. Sams jokingly said to her you had\\nbetter turn that fellow off and have me.\\nThe young lady, after a short pause replied:\\nWell, if you will write and dismiss him, I will.\\nHere w^as a predicament. He certainly admired\\nand loved the young lady who was discreet and\\nladylike, but he had not thought of marrying so\\nsoon. But he afterw^ard said: I was in honor\\nbound to go through with it. So he answered, I\\nwill and you must copy it.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nThe letter was accordingly written and sent to the\\ngentleman, and shortly afterward, Isaac Sams and\\nMary Knowlder were married. He never had\\ncause to regret his marriage, for she made him a\\ndevoted and excellent wife. In his diary, February,\\n1865, recording her death he writes Madame Sams,\\n11 A. M. left me desolate, the dearest, truest, most\\nprecious.\\nAfter his marriage, Mr. Sams remained in his\\nposition, in Greenwich Hospital, for nearly six\\nyears. During these years, his income was small\\nand his family increasing. He did some work as a\\nteacher, outside of his official duties, and occupied\\nall of his leisure hours in study, for his ambition to\\nbecome educated, had not lessened. In the winter\\nof 1817 and 1818, he became very much interested\\nin America, and was facinated by Morris Birbeck s\\ndescription of this country. He became impressed\\nwith the opinion, that his dut}^ to his family\\ndemanded that he should emigrate thither.\\nAccordingly, he embarked on the 25th of April,\\n1818, on a sailing packet from Gravesend for the\\nUnited States. After a long and tedious voyage the\\nship entered Chesapeake Bay, on the 17th of June.\\nIn his dairy, Mr. Sams says language is unequal\\nto describe, or imagination to depict the matchless\\nbeauties of our course up this noble bay. Our\\nstately vessel had every breadth of canvas fondly\\nstretched to catch the most gentle and auspicious", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 19\\nbreeze. The distant light-house appeared emulat-\\ning the setting evening star, while the dark green\\nfringe of shady groves bordered the lucid water,\\nwhich seemed to tremble beneath the pale chaste\\nrays of the moon shining in her full orbed splendor.\\nThe azure spangled firmament seemed to shed on all\\nbelow, its soft serenity. Under the influence of\\nsuch a progress and the grateful recollections of our\\ntouching on the land of peace, the land of abun-\\ndance, the land of freedom what heart would not\\nexult, what bosom not expand Such delights are\\namongst the most refined of which our souls are\\ncapable.\\nOn the 19th of June, the ship arrived abreast of\\nAnnapolis, and on the 20th, reached Baltimore.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nHaving secured comfortable quarters, Mr. Sams\\nat once searched the newspapers for an advertise-\\nment for a teacher, as he proposed to follow that\\nprofession, for a time at least. He also wrote a\\nletter to Morris Birbeck, asking for information in\\nregard to the settlement, then being made under\\nhis auspices. After dispatching his letter, he called\\nupon Dr. Knox, president of Baltimore College, who\\nhad advertised for a tutor. He found out from him\\nthat a prominent physician. Dr. Hammond and two\\nor three other families, were desirous of employing\\na teacher for their children. The location was\\ndistant thirteen miles on the Frederick Road.\\nAt five o clock on the morning of the 23d of June,\\nhe started afoot for this place. He breakfasted at\\nLeigh s tavern, and afterward ascended a hill near\\nby. This spot is situated about ten miles from\\nBaltimore, and of it he says in his diary my\\nattention was rivited upon the scene around me.\\nThe broad Patapsco rushing over its bed of rock, is\\nhere crossed by the great turnpike road to Frederick\\nand Pittsburgh. This point some years before\\nattracted the attention of three brothers named", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 21\\nEUicott. They saw in the power here, infinite wealth\\nfor themselves, and great benefit to the community.\\nThe land was then neglected and despised. The\\nlight sands and barren rocks were purchased b}^\\nthese enterprising men at $1.50 and $2.00 an acre.\\nOne tract of sixty acres was bought for an old horse.\\nAt this time, their united capitals were less than\\n$1,000, but their genius and industry, their greatness\\nof mind, frugality of habit soon began to work\\nwonders. They opened out excellent quarries, soon\\na mill was built, the broad river having been\\ndammed at this point. A capitalist, convinced of\\nthe worth and integrity of the Ellicotts, advanced\\nthem such sums of money as they wished on moder-\\nate interest. Another mill w^as raised, and even a\\nthird now strikes the view of admiring beholders\\nin this narrow valley.\\nThis point which afterward became his place of\\nresidence for many years seems to have made a\\nstrong impression upon the mind of the young\\nteacher, and its scenery to have relieved the tedium\\nof his long walk.\\nOn arriving at his destination, he found Dr.\\nHammond at home, and to him stated his business.\\nHe told him a little of his past life, his late employ-\\nment and disappointments, and of his family and\\nintentions. He showed his letters from the authori-\\nties of Greenwich Hospital, corroborating his state-\\nments. Dr. Hammond finally agreed that he should", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nbe employed in the position he desired, if he could\\nobtain from Dr. Knox, a letter stating the doctor s\\nbelief as to his capability of performing the duties\\nwhich would devolve upon him.\\nReturning to Baltimore, he addressed a letter to\\nDr. Knox which resulted in an interview the next\\nday. He was punctual to the time and thus\\ndescribes his examination: Dr. Knox walked out\\nto the hall of the college and as a preliminary, intro-\\nduced me to Dr. Sinclair, the vice-president. He\\nthen mentioned m}^ letter with which he expressed\\nhimself very much pleased. Mj handwriting, he\\nthought extremely good. Regarding Latin I\\ninterrupted him by requesting he would allow me\\nto parse a passage. He struck upon the following\\nmost simple one from Corderius: Quid modo agebas\\ncum proceptore, which of course was done instantly.\\nHe was then examined in French from Raynall s\\nIndia. By this time he sa\\\\^s the scholastic examin-\\nation had given place to an agreeable and lively lit-\\nerary conversation. Dr. Knox gave freedom to the\\nbenevolence and good humor of which he has so\\ngreat a fund. Dr. Sinclair did not omit the atten-\\ntions of hospitality, and I was perfectly delighted.\\nThe President took m}^ papers and again exj^ressed\\nhis gratification on perusing them, and said he\\nwould give me a letter any time I chose to call.\\nHe went the following day and received his let-\\nter of introduction and recommendation. African", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 23\\nslavery had already attracted his attention and he\\ninquired of Dr. Knox how they treated the subject\\nin education. The reply he received, after some\\nexplanation, was: Silence is the wisest plan\\ntoward their affairs.\\nThe next day Mr. Sams proceeded to Dr. Ham-\\nmond with his letter and was kindly received. He\\nhad some conversation with the doctor on the sub-\\nject of education, and says he strongly insisted on\\nthe lecturing mode of teaching in preference to the\\ntask method. The details in regard to his school\\nwere soon arranged. He was to receive five hundred\\ndollars a year for his services, and the number of\\npupils was to be limited to twenty-five. He pro-\\nceeded the following day to his school house, which\\nhe found to be a log one, low and ill arranged. Some\\nrepairs were necessary, and while these were being\\nmade he returned to Baltimore. He gives an amus-\\ning account of his return journey His compan-\\nions in the stage, he says, were a lady of elegant\\nand lively manners a volatile Bacchanalian a\\ndwarfish sentimentalist, and a sensible man of bus-\\niness. On arriving in the city he went to church\\nin the evening, and of the service, says the junior\\nminister preached on the text, Keep holy the Sab-\\nbath day. I was sorry to hear his lamentable\\ncanting. No smile of cheerfulness, no moment of\\nrelaxation, on that day all gloom, all solemnity\\nand devotion", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nAfter church that evening he remained at the\\nhouse of a new acquaintance in conversation until\\nmidnight. He then went to a hotel and asked for a\\nroom. All were engaged and he started to find\\none at another place. He says, I stood a moment\\nto think which way I should go, when I was accos-\\nted by a watchman What s your name? Where\\ndo you live What business are you in Where\\nare you going I did not answer these questions\\nto the satisfaction of my gentleman, and being\\njoined by another of his tribe, they said I must go\\nto the watch-house. Mr. Murphy, a Methodist, with\\nwhom I was slightly acquainted, happened to be\\nthe captain of the watch. The man told him pretty\\ncorrectly what had passed. Said I had asked him\\nhow to get a decent bed, but that was not his duty.\\nSaid I wondered why I should be arrested when 1\\nhad not broken, nor shown any disposition to break\\nthe peace, but I was out after midnight.\\nMy Methodist friend began to say, he was sorry\\nthat Mr. Sams should be brought thus before him.\\nBut I, out of all patience, made him a speech\\ntouching the gross misconduct of his people in\\narresting a sober, quiet stranger, w^ho, because he\\nhappened to be shut out of an inn, must be dragged\\nlike a robber to a dungeon. This is your boasted\\ncivil liberty, I said to the pious Mr. Murphy. He\\nstood up and begged that I would walk with him.\\nHe assured me that his people w^ere justified, as his", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "PROP^ESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 25\\ninstructions to the watch were to bring to the watch-\\nhouse all stragglers, night-walkers, and suspicious\\npersons. It was a system of preventive police that\\nsaved much crime. He was very sorry that it had\\nhappened, for if it got wind it would wound my rep-\\nutation, though I were ever so innocent of all impro-\\nprieties. Still I was in high dudgeon, and it was\\nonly after his declaring that I was no prisoner, but\\nquite at liberty, and offering me a seat several\\ntimes, a chair outside the watch-house, that I con-\\ndescended to sit down and doze until three o clock\\nthe next morning.\\nOn that day Mr. Sams proceeded to take out his\\npapers declaring his intention of becoming an\\nAmerican citizen, notwithstanding his experiences\\nof the previous night. He then went to Baltimore\\ncollege and paid his respects to Drs. Knox and Sin-\\nclair. Here a discussion arose upon the pronuncia-\\ntion of the Latin vowels and dipthongs. Mr. Sams\\ngave his opinion in favor of the Italian or Conti-\\nnental method. First because he was satisfied it\\napproached the nearest the Ancient Roman pronun-\\nciation and because it was the pronunciation of those\\ncountries in modern times. But he thought the\\nEnglish method preferable in England and America\\nbecause it had the sanction of Dr. Johnson and\\nmany learned men and was in general use in all\\nthe English universities and agreed with the ver-\\nnacular language.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nLeaving his kind friends at Baltimore College he\\nproceeded on the 8th of July to his scene of future\\nlabor, and commenced on that day his work as a\\nteacher in America. He organized his little school,\\nand seems from the start to have had but little\\ntrouble, for in his diary, a short time afterward, he\\nsaj^s I have not yet had to resort to corporal pun-\\nishment with my chiklren. By my system I keep\\nshame alive, and they shed tears when I speak\\nseverely.\\nHe now felt grievously the separation from his\\nfamily. He longed for his absent wife and his little\\nboys left behind him in England. About this time\\nhe witnessed the first thunderstorm since he had\\nbeen in this country. Everyone but himself paid\\nlittle attention to it, while he says he could do noth-\\ning but gaze at the unparalleled magnificence of\\nNature. A visit from a Scotch traveling school-\\nmaster is mentioned in his diary as follows: his\\npleasure in meeting a Briton, I participated in, but\\nnot fervently, for, after all, it is kindred minds not\\nadventitious identity of country which will unite\\nthe man of experience or the philosopher. At an", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 27\\nearly age we have seen that Mr. Sams was very\\nmuch interested upon the subject of religion. Now\\nhe was boarding in a family, the members of which\\nwere full of religious zeal. An entrv in his diary\\nsays: my host s prayers are so fervent that God\\nwould change the hearts of those who are strangers\\nto his saving grace. He makes many allusions that\\n1 am satisfied are aimed at myself, and yet I appear\\nso tranquil and indifferent, that we shall never be\\nhigh m each others esteem. What bigoted zeal\\nexclusive selfishness that all which it cannot em-\\nbrace within its pale, it would destroy! My ho^t\\nhas seen enough of my conduct and gathered enouo-h\\nIrom my conversation to feel satisfied that I have\\narrived at a certain point both of information and\\ncharacter, but in his heart he holds me a fit bone\\nor the devil to jDick and if called upon to speak\\nhis mmd, would say Oh he is a well conducted\\ncharacter ap^mrently to us, but he has no sicvns of\\nsaving grace in his heart. The saving light of faith\\nhas never struck upon his darkened mind, nor the\\nglories of the gospel shed their influence on his\\ndeluded understanding. Nor is such a being fit in\\nhis eyes to fulfill any duty as it ought to be fulfilled\\nnor discharge any function on earth as it ought to\\nbe done. Ample scope was this night afforded me\\nto form this conclusion when he spoke of those who\\nfrequent the meeting, yet did not belong to the\\nsociety, because they had never gone with a whin-", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\ning, doleful face and a cant about the call of Grace,\\nthe light of Faith, the holy kiss of Jesus, the inspi-\\nration of the Spirit, the conviction of regeneration\\nand such like unmeaning rhodamontades.\\nI took an opportunity of giving my host to under-\\nstand that for my own part, I had for sixteen years\\nsought the truth on subjects of religion, with great\\nlabor and assiduity, and, that at about the age of\\ntwenty-five had arrived at my conclusions and I\\ntrusted my convictions were now fixed forever.\\nThe lady of the house equally imbued with zeal,\\nhe says took an opportunit}^ of expressing her relig-\\nious horror of dancing and of music. But remem-\\nbering her squalling, of hymns she recanted as to\\nmusic and admitted that music is a part of\\nreligion.\\nIt now occurred to Mr. Sams that in the absence\\nof all other religious services in the neighboorhood,\\nhe would offer to read the service of the Church of\\nEngland in the school house on the Sabbath. Ac-\\ncordingly arrangements were made, and on the fol-\\nlowing Sunda}^ he read the service to an audience\\nof twenty-three persons. He also read a short\\naddress upon the occasion.\\nReflecting upon this step he says here then\\nbehold a man like me who looks upon the various\\nreligions of the earth with charity not contempt,\\nbehold me engaged in the knotty, mazy and inex-\\ntricable labyrinth of theology. But amid the lonely", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 29\\ncontemplations of my evening, while revolving the\\narguments for divinity through the works of crea-\\ntion, I happened to observe by mere chance a\\ntransaction which chilled my holy fervor to expira-\\ntion. Hearing a buzzing noise near my desk I\\nturned around and observed a fly just entangled in\\nthe fatal snare of a spider. It struggled in vain to\\nfree its useless limbs, and the scaly ruffian spider\\nflew, or seemed to fly, along the web to seize its\\nluckless prey. Again the unwary innocent com-\\nmenced its violent efforts to escape, but the iron\\narms of the monster fastened round its body. Soon\\nhe lays it fluttering and struggling on its back and\\nwhilst it is pinioned there, fastens its murderous\\nfangs on the wretch s throat and with unrelentless\\nthirst of blood, sucks, and sucks and sucks the vital\\njuices from the helpless animal, which after vain\\nand excruciating suffering seems at last to yield its\\nunwilling life.\\nAt this moment I awoke from my deep reverie\\nand touched, merely touched, the dastard, coward\\nmurderer who loosed his victim and made a rapid\\nflight. But too late The fly was where his life\\nwas where Where, oh, ye sages\\nThe impression made on me the very moment the\\npen was in my hand writing rhapsodies in praise of\\nthe Divinity, I can never, never forget.\\nReligious matters seem now to have absorbed Mr.\\nSams thoughts when not teaching or studying.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nThere were many Methodists in the neighboorhood,\\nand he visited during the fall one of their camp-\\nmeetings. The meeting did not differ from those\\nof later days excepting that there was more demon-\\nstration of excitement. He was also much inter-\\nested in similar meetings held by the blacks and he\\nsays he found their tears, swoonings, convulsions,\\nand shoutings, all in a greater degree of eclat than\\nat the white meetings. The religious interest\\nbecame very great, and it is not to be wondered at\\nthat our young teacher paid a good deal of atten-\\ntion to it. At one of the camp meetings he says he\\nentered more than one tent and oftener than once\\napjDroached the altar to make an experiment of the\\neffect that what I had heard might make upon me;\\nbut I apprehend that he who has run my race and\\ntrod my track has reached beyond the grasp of\\nreligious enthusiasm.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 31\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nAbout this time the project was mooted among\\nMr. Sams friends, of purchasing an acre of ground\\nand building a church. Of this project, Mr. Sams\\nsays Now, if ever a church were built here, I\\nmust have it or leave the place but would I enter\\norders? There is the rub\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I hate orders; but with\\na church, a school, and a farm I might prosper.\\nDuring the fall and winter Mr. Sams, while occas-\\nionally repining for his absent family, gave himself\\nup to*^ study. He applied himself to Greek and\\nMathematics. The latter, not for their own sake,\\nfor he says The regions of polite literature can\\nnever lose for me their predominant charm. The\\nabsence of his family was the means of his acquir-\\ning knowledge which he would not otherwise have\\ngained, for he kept himself busily engaged in order\\nthat his thoughts might not too much dwell on the\\nabsent ones.\\nHis birthday occurred on the 12th of November,\\nand is thus noticed in his diary I am this day\\nthirty. To review the history of my life would be\\ninstructive, but would require more time than I can\\nspare. I am reading Greek, Horace, Algebra, and", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nGeometr}^ I am thinking of nothing more than of\\nthe clear ones afar off.\\nA few days afterward he paid a visit to BaUimore,\\nand went to church several times and heard Bishop\\nKemp preach. He also called at Baltimore College\\nto see Dr. Knox. He visited the theatre and says\\nof the visit Went to see Cooper in Richard.\\nLike Holman in person and voice and manner.\\nInferior Gloster. Some able touches in his King\\nRichard. But Kean having been seen, spoils him.\\nThe Beehive is well supported by Jefferson.\\nA few days afterward, he received a letter from\\nEngland informing him that his wife had given\\nbirth to a daughter on the 29th of the preceding\\nAugust. On reading his letter he says, he dis-\\nmissed his school for the day, and fell into a hyster-\\nical fit of tears.\\nOn the 24th of December he had a public exam-\\nination of his school, and the patrons present\\nexpressed the warmest approbation at the progress\\nof the children. He then had a vacation until the\\n4th of January, 1819, when he resumed his school\\nwork, not remitting his daily assignment of study.\\nHe also made arrangements for bringing his family\\nover in the spring, and formed plans for the future,\\nwhen re-united with those he loved so well, and\\nwhose absence he felt so sorely.\\nNo man ever possessed a more deeply religious\\nnature than Mr. Sams, yet we find this entry in his", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 33\\ndiary in January, 1819: The good people here\\nbore me to death with scripture argument and dis-\\nsertation. So much for my pretension to Religion.\\nHe had many conversations with his host who had\\noriginal views on all subjects. Mr. Sams says they\\nwere talking one morning about wives and Mr. Poole\\nsaid, he would choose wives as he would cattle,\\nnever with long legs and necks, as such are always\\ntender and delicate, but with short legs and thick\\nnecks, as such as hardy.\\nAbout this time, Mr. Sams was informed that\\n$3,000 had been subscribed for building a church\\nand a school house for him. The school house he\\nsays is convertible into a better habitation than\\nanything within reach. It might serve. The spring\\nopened and a garden patch fenced in, the matter\\nwould be done. My first motive for stopping is to\\nimprove my own education. My family are God\\nknows where. Perhaps at sea. Should this be so\\nthey may yet become inhabitants of the woods.\\nBetween the alternative of going away from here,\\nperhaps West, and striking up a school in some city,\\nI see no medium. Early in the spring of 1819,\\nMr. Sams family arrived from England. The pro-\\nject of the new church and school building fell\\nthrough for the time, and he continued in the old\\nlog school house, giving the most complete satis-\\nfaction to pupils and parents.\\nHaving by zealous and unremitting study made\\ngreat progress in obtaining the education he so", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nmuch desired, he longed for a field of labor that\\nwould bring into full exercise the ability for teach-\\ning he knew that he possessed.\\nOn the arrival of his family he procured for\\nthem a comfortable residence in the neighboor-\\nhood. For the next two years he continued his\\nschool in the old log school house, his reputa-\\ntion as a teacher constantly increasing. He was\\nfrequently urged by his friends to remove to a\\nmore favorable location and in 1822 he rented\\nthe White House, a school building two or three\\nmiles nearer Ellicott s Mills. Removing thither, his\\nschool and his family enjoyed some advantages not\\nattainable in his first location. The reputation\\nof his school extended beyond the neighborhood\\nand he obtained several pupils from Baltimore,\\nand other places.\\nHe had not been at the White House long\\nbefore he was invited to come to Ellicott s Mills, then\\na growing and flourishing village. Tenders of aid\\nand influence were made him by prominent citizens\\nof that place. He determined upon a removal and\\npurchased a piece of ground in that village and\\nhad erected upon it a school building while carry-\\ning on his school at the White House. He removed\\nto this new location in 1S24 and opened Rock Hill\\nAcademy. He received at the beginning about\\nforty boarders as pupils, many who had been in his\\nschool at tl)^ White House following him to Elli-\\ncott s Mills.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 35\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nThe Rock Hill Academ}^ was a day and boarding\\nschool. It rapidly attained an excellent reputation\\nand was considered the best school of the kind in\\nthe State. From the commencement it had all the\\npupils that could be accommodated. Many of these\\nwere from Baltimore and Philadelphia, and belonged\\nto prominent families. Quite a number of them\\nbecame afterward well known in the business and\\npolitics of their several States.\\nAt this school the pupils from a distance were\\nreceived into the family of the principal, and he\\nbecame their companion and friend as well as their\\nteacher. He says in discipline he endeavored to\\narrive at beneficial results rather by the benignity of\\nhis admonitions and by demonstrating the reason-\\nableness of his representations, than by rigor and\\nseverity.\\nHe was their chief instructor in the Classics and\\nthe Mathematics, while the department of the\\nFrench and Spanish languages was in charge of\\na resident professor, a gentleman from Paris.\\nThe evenings, he says, are passed by the\\nwhole family in the library, where are arranged", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nabout six hundred volumes of books selected for\\nthis particular purpose, and to which the attention\\nof the youth is won by constant reference to their\\ncontents in the ordinary course of teaching. Read-\\ning is occasionally relieved by Music, Conversation,\\nand experiments in Natural Philosophy.\\nThis mode of passing the evening was, he says,\\nattended with very satisfactory results. Mothers,\\nladies of taste and judgment, have, without solici-\\ntation, honored the principal with their congratu-\\nlations on the modest confidence of manners and\\nthe manly, elevated tone of conversation which,\\nunder this system, their sons had attained.\\nThe good work done and thorough instruction\\ngiven at Rock Hill were subjects of public notoriety\\nand approbation. Among his pupils were the sons\\nand wards of eminent men in the Eastern cities.\\nAmong those who sent their sons to Rock Hill, may\\nbe mentioned: Judge Hopkinson, Hon. Alexander\\nMcKim, David Hoffman, Commodore Stewart, the\\nEllicotts, Dr. Hammond, Hon. John P. Kennedy.\\nMany other names of families prominent in Mary-\\nland society appear in his journal. For ten years\\nRock Hill Academy enjoyed a patronage and a\\nreputation second to no other similar school in the\\ncountry. Its success made for Mr. Sams an excel-\\nlent reputation as a teacher throughout all that\\nsection of the country. The school and its princi-\\npal became well known in New York, and friends", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 37\\nthere often suggested his coming to that city and\\nopening a similar school.\\nWhile not in any way dissatisfied with his pros-\\npects in Maryland, he looked with a longing to this\\nwider field for the exercise of his abilities. He\\nmade up his mind to remove to Brooklyn, and in\\nthe winter of 1834-35 advertised Rock Hill for sale.\\nWhen his intention of leaving EUicott s Mills be-\\ncame known, many letters of regret poured in upon\\nhim from old pupils and friends. One of these,\\nfrom Governor Howard, we give below.\\nWaverly, Md., 28tli January, 1835.\\nIsaac Sams, Esq.,\\nMy Dear Sir: Having heard with great regret that you have\\nit in contemplation to remove to New York and having under-\\nstood that it w^ould be agreeable to you to bear with you the testi-\\nmony of some of those persons whose children have been under\\nyour care as to your qualifications as a preceptor and your char-\\nacter as a man, I beg leave to offer my tribute as regards both.\\nYou, sir, came amongst us as an unknown stranger and the stand-\\ning you now hold amongst us would in itself, where the fact is\\nknown, be sufficient evidence of your worth. Throughout the\\nlong period of your sojourn here I have not heard the slightest\\nimputation against your character as a virtuous citizen and an\\nintelligent instructor and a good christian. Should you finally\\ndetermine to leave the neighborhood, I hope most sincerely that\\nyou may succeed in all your undertakings and that your place\\nhere may be supplied by one as capable and meritorious as\\nyourself.\\nWith sentiments of esteem and respect, I have the honor to be\\nYour most obedient servant,\\nGeoege Howard.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nThe pupils of Rock Hill, finding he was going to\\nleave their school, addressed him a paper filled with\\nsentiments of love and respect and asked his accept-\\nance of a fine silver cup as a slight evidence of their\\ngood feelings towards him.\\nHis friends in Maryland parted with him with\\nreluctance. Proceeding to New York he carried\\nletters of introduction from the most prominent\\ncitizens of Mar3dand to equally eminent men in\\nNew York. These letters spoke of him in the high-\\nest terms as a gentleman, a christian and a teacher.\\nThey were addressed to Chancellor Mathews, Wm.\\nB. Astor, Washington Irving, Charles Augustus\\nDavis, John B. Ogden, Bishop Onderdonk, Chancel-\\nlor Kent, Gardiner Howland, Robert B. Mintern,\\nGen. Talmage, Dr. Milnor and others.\\nThe}^ were given him by Hon. John P. Kennedy,\\nJudge Hopkinson, Governor Howard, John McTav-\\nish and other friends in Maryland.\\nHe went to Brooklyn in the early spring of 1835,\\nand at once presented his letters and made arrange-\\nments for opening his school. He obtained suitable\\nbuildings and issued his prospectus in which he\\nstates the object of his school was to provide a sound\\nand thorough instruction for young gentlemen.\\nThe school was filled the first day with youths\\nbelonging to the best families of New York and\\nBrooklyn. A very successful beginning was made\\nand for a short time the school was very prosperous.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 39\\nIn the midst of the most pleasing prospects Mr.\\nSams was taken sick and his health utterly failed.\\nHe was forced to abandon his enterprise, which\\npromised the grandest results. That he was com-\\npelled to withdraw from his school was no less a\\nmatter of regret to his patrons than to himself. In\\nthe short time he had been in Brooklyn he had\\nbecome known as an able teacher, and his energies\\nwould have been taxed to the fullest extent in this\\nmore extended field of labor. It was doubtless the\\nextra work and strain he took upon himself that\\ncaused the failure of his health.\\nHe had exchanged his property at Ellicott s Mills\\nfor a tract of land of 1,000 acress near Hillsboro,\\nHighland county, Ohio. Thomas and Nathaniel\\nEllicott, with whom he made this exchange, had\\nbeen among his w^armest friends in Maryland.\\nThey had been very kind to him when he first went\\nto Rock Hill, and to the day of his death he retain-\\ned the warmest feelings of friendship for them. He\\noften said they were two of the truest and noblest,\\nmen he had ever knowm.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nProfessor Sams now determined to remove to Ohio\\nand try to regain his lost health. To accomplish\\nthis he proposed to clear out and bring into market\\na portion of his tract of wild land. Accordingly\\nhe started for Hillsboro, Ohio, where he arrived on\\nthe 5th of Septemxber, 1835. He had resolved, much\\nas he loved the work, not to enter the school room\\nagain until his health should be fully restored. For\\nthe next few years he occupied himself on his land\\nperforming as well as his strength and health per-\\nmitted the labors of a pioneer farmer. His reputa-\\ntion as a teacher had preceded him and he was often\\nconsulted on educational matters by those having\\nthem in charge. He soon became very much inter-\\nested in the Common Schools of Ohio, which for ten\\nyears before had been slowly but gradually improv-\\ning. In the year 1838 they were still very imper-\\nfect. The teachers were carelessly and superficiall}^\\nexamined, and the youth were loosely taught. In\\nthe year above mentioned the legislature passed a\\nlaw for the appointment of County Boards of School\\nExaminers by the Court of Common Pleas.\\nBy virtue of this law Mr. Sams was appointed", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 41\\nSchool Examiner and at once adopted a fixed method\\nof strict examination of applicants for certificates.\\nBy adhering strictly to his rules he soon brought it\\nabout that Highland county had a better qualified\\ncorps of teachers than any other county in Southern\\nOhio.\\nHis examinations were a terror to inefiicient and\\npoorly qualified teachers, but he gave true merit\\nand good scholarship the fullest recognition. Many\\nof the teachers in that day were possessed of but\\nlimited acquirements. Certificates had often to be\\ngiven to this class or else the schools would not have\\nbeen supplied with teachers. These were always\\nadmonished by Mr. Sams to make a better showing\\nthe next time they came before the Board.\\nHe insisted on some things even in this day not\\nalwaj^s required in the teacher. One of these was\\npersonal cleanliness of hands, face, and apparel.\\nApplicants who came with dirty hands were dis-\\nmissed with a short lecture on the virtues of soap\\nand water. An instance is recorded in the School\\nExaminers Journal of his dismissing a young man\\nfrom the examination room on account of his filthy\\nlinen and the effluvia arising from his body.\\nGreat pressure was sometimes made to have cer-\\ntificates issued to persons whom he deemed really\\nincompetent. Yielding to importunities of this\\nkind, he issued a certificate to a certain party and\\nrecorded that he had been examined and found", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nbarely qualified to teach for three months in the\\nswamp Common Schools of Highland county.\\nThe good results that accrued to the cause of edu-\\ncation through Mr. Sams method of examination\\ncannot be over-estimated. Although there were\\ngenerally two other members of the Board, Mr. Sams\\nwas the examiner. He did most of the work, and it\\nwas always to him a labor of love. Complaints\\nwere often made of the strictness of his examin-\\nations, but the results generally vindicated the wis-\\ndom and justice of his course. He served almost\\nuninterruptedly as examiner for thirty years, and\\nhis services are gratefully remembered by all friends\\nof education in Highland county.\\nAs early as 1840, Mr. Sams began to agitate the\\nquestion of a County Society of Teachers, and\\nthrough his influence was formed an Association\\nof Teachers of Highland county, which has contin-\\nued in activity and usefulness to the present day.\\nHe was also instrumental in having the first\\nTeachers Institute held in this county in the year\\n1853.\\nMr. Sams took a deep interest in educational\\nmatters, not only in Highland county, but in the\\nentire State. While in his early years of service as\\nExaminer, he addressed a memorial to Governor\\nCorwin on the subject of school libraries. This was\\nan ably written paper and was received and favor-\\nably considered by the authorities at the capital.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 43\\nA few years afterward the school Library law was\\npassed, the first suggestion of which came from Mr.\\nSams.\\nHe was also an active member of the State Asso-\\nciation of teachers, and was elected its president for\\n1851. The meeting of the association for that year\\nwas held at Columbus, December 31st, 1851, and\\nJanuary 1st, 1852. The most important business\\ntransacted was the reception of the report of the\\ncommittee previously appointed, recommending the\\nestablishment of an educational paper as the organ\\nof the association. The report was adopted and Mr.\\nSams took an active part in putting the enterprise\\non a firm foundation. Accordingly in January, 1852,\\nwas issued the first number of the Ohio Journal of\\nEducation, now the Ohio Educational Monthly and\\nNational Teacher. He also took a prominent part\\nin the discussion of other important questions\\nbrought before the association at that early day.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nFor several years previous to Mr. Sams coming to\\nHillsboro, an academy had been in existence in the\\nvillage. It had been under the charge of different\\nPrincipals, but owing to the lack of proper accom-\\nmodations had not accomplished fully the ends\\ndesired by its founders. A donation of land having\\nbeen received by the trustees they resolved to pur-\\nchase ground and erect a commodious building.\\nAccordingly thirteen acres of land were pur-\\nchased north of town, and a handsome brick build-\\ning erected upon it. On its completion, the trustees\\ninvited Mr. Sams to take charge of the Academy.\\nNothing had been provided except the necessary\\nschool rooms, and Mr. Sams urged the erection of a\\nsuitable building for the principal and teachers, and\\nfor a boarding house for pupils. Owing to a lack of\\nfunds, this was not done.\\nUnder Mr. Sams the academy prospered for the\\nfollowing six years. It afforded excellent opportuni-\\nties to the young men of the town and vicinity to\\nobtain a good business education, or to prepare for\\ncollege. It attracted a number of students from\\nadjoining counties and elsewhere, who boarded in", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 45\\ntown and attended the school. The school was par-\\nticularly noted for the thoroughness with which the\\nclassics were taught.\\nMr. Sams was thorough in his teaching and inde-\\nfatigable in his efforts to advance the interests of\\nthe school. His work was done, however, under\\nsome discouragements, and he was never able to\\nmake the school just what he wished it to be. It\\nwas his desire that it should be a boarding school\\nfor boys on the plan of his famous Rock Hill Aca-\\ndemy. Seeing no prospect of the erection of the\\nadditional buildings he deemed necessary to its com-\\nplete success, he, in March, 1851, tendered to the\\nboard of trustees his resignation as principal. The\\nboard, in accepting his resignation, say: The trus-\\ntees have seen with sympathy your unwearied\\nefforts to sustain a school of high character under\\ndifficulties which they could not remove, and they\\nstill find it impossible to say when they can afford\\nthose facilities which they agree with you in\\nthinking so necessary to the success of the institu-\\ntion. i^ Under these\\ncircumstances your resignation is accepted, and in\\nparting with you we desire to express our high\\nappreciation of your profound scholarship and\\nunwearied devotion to your duties as a teacher.\\nYour indefatigable efforts in the cause of educa-\\ntion are too well understood in this community to\\nneed remarks, and for the influence you have", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nexerted by the thorough education of so many of our\\nyoung men, and by your labor to elevate the stand-\\nard of education in Highland county generally, the\\npublic owe you the highest gratitude.\\nThis letter was signed by all of the trustees, then\\nleading men in educational matters in the town.\\nThe severance of the connection of Professor Sams\\n(by which title he was now known, and which no\\none better deserved), with the academy, was a mat-\\nter of great regret in the community.\\nIn the following four chapters we give some remi-\\nniscences of the old academy, written by an old\\nboy, the Hon. John W. Steel, now of Minnesota.\\nThey will be found interesting to the general reader,\\nand doubly so, to every pupil of the old academy.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 47\\nCHAPTER X.\\nOn a bright autumn morning in the year 1846,\\nthe writer of this, then a lad of thirteen, with a\\nshining school-boy face, began his pupilage with\\nthe now lamented Professor Isaac Sams. The\\nHillsboro Academy, although it had nominally\\nexisted prior to that time, had never before possessed\\na suitable building. By the efforts of a few friends\\nof education, a large, and for that time and locality,\\na handsome brick structure had been erected on a\\nslight eminence on the northerly verge of the village.\\nA knot of fifteen or twenty boys assembled on\\nthat opening-day in the basement of the new build-\\ning, as that was the only portion tenantable. We\\ngathered around the stove, discussing as boys are\\nwont to do, the probable characteristics of our new\\nteacher. Most of us had seen him as he strode\\nthrough our streets, erect and with an imposing\\ncarriage, and it was whispered from one to another\\nthat he was awful savage. As the custom of flog-\\nging was still in vogue, we about made up our minds\\nthat we would catch it if we were not uncom-\\nmonly careful.. While exchanging our views on the\\nsubject the cry was raised here he comes, and", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nlooking out of the windows we beheld, him whom,\\nin our lack of veneration, we had dared to call Old\\nIsaac, riding up on a small dun horse. He was\\nclad in a long white great coat, buckled around his\\nAvaist with a surcingle and covered as to his head\\nwith a huge fur cap. Soon the door opened and\\nMr. Sams entered, holding in his right hand a short\\ncowhide whip which projected straight before him\\nand, with a military salute he marched across the\\nroom into another apartment where he disposed of\\nhis Avrappings. Soon returning he held some con-\\nsultations with a few of the parents who were pres-\\nent and then commenced business.\\nYoung gentlemen, he began we looked round\\nto see whom he was addressing, for we had never\\nbeen so flattered before, and as we saw none to whom\\nhe could be talking but ourselves, we each straight-\\nened up about a foot, more or less, and began to\\nthink he was a pretty nice old gentleman after all.\\nAll hands attention! he proceeded, Come\\nforward, and matriculate. We gazed at each other\\ndumbly. What he wished us to do we could not\\nimagine for matriculate was a word that was not\\nyet introduced into our limited vocabulary. How-\\never, he called up one of our number. Will McDowell\\n(afterwards a talented judge in Kansas) entered his\\nname, and then proceeded to enroll each in his\\nturn, with a turkey-quill pen which he manu-\\nfactured in our presence by about three clips of an", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 49\\nimmense pruning knife which he waved in the air\\nlike a saber. To us, the whole scene was indescriba-\\nbly funn}^ although my fun was mingled with not\\na little fear and trembling. Soon my turn came.\\nHe pulled down his skull-cap with his left hand\\nand raising his turkey-quill in his right, as though\\nabout to stab me with it, looked at me as I thought\\nfiercely, and said in an interrogative tone Name?\\nI informed him. Age also answered. Tell me\\nhow many are 16 times 16, quick, quick T fairly\\nshrieking the last word. I giggled. Ah, said he,\\nI see, mercurial, frivolous, but, my dear boy, we will\\ndo better bye-and-bye, yes, we will improve.\\nSoon his roll was finished and I can never forget\\nwhen he called over McDowell, Steel, We ver, Kibler,\\netc., and assigned to us our various tasks.\\nLet me here say that no one who was not\\nacquainted with the whole manner, appearance,\\npronunciation, and peculiarities of Professor Sams,\\ncan appreciate him from anything Avhich can be\\nwritten concerning him.\\nMy purpose is sim23ly to relate a few incidents\\nwhich occurred during his administration, which,\\nw^iile they show some of the eccentricities of this\\nnoble-hearted gentleman, yet may serve feebly to\\nillustrate his mode of teaching and governing, a\\nmode so utterly in contrast with that then in vogue,\\nand so contrary to all of our preconceived notions,\\nyet if we judge by its results, so beneficial to those", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nintrusted to his care. I call it a mode, for it was\\nnot a system, or if a system, was one that varied\\nwith each pupil and each recurring circumstance.\\nProfessor Sams could not run in the groove with\\nother instructors. He was a man sui generis, and if\\nsome of his sayings appeared to many to border on\\nthe ridiculous, yet no teacher, we believe, could ever\\npoint to a greater number of his pupils who have\\nlived lives of usefulness, or who have achieved\\nhigher distinction in their various fields of effort.\\nMost of those who have amounted to much, as\\nthe phrase goes, will say to-day, if living, that to his\\nearnest labor, thorough training and splendid\\nexample of what constitutes true manhood, they are\\nprincipally indebted for all they are, that is worth\\nbeing. Indeed, the great trouble one finds in\\nendeavoring to sketch him as he was, is that even\\nthe most modest presentation of the truth con-\\ncerning his merits must appear to strangers, fulsome\\neulogy. Of course, at this distant period I can not\\npretend to relate events in their chronological order,\\nbut purpose only to narrate some incidents that\\noccurred at various times illustrative not only of the\\neccentricities of the gifted man, but of this thorough\\nmethod of instruction. They will show his hatred\\nof hypocrisy and shame, his love of truth and\\nhonor, his detestation of tyranny and oppression,\\nand his delight in hearing of the success of his\\npupils in after-life.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 51\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nFor a day or two after our first session commenced\\nwe kept rather quiet, studying the disposition of\\nour new instructor, and occasionally experimenting\\na little to see whether he was as terrible as rumor\\nhad represented him. He made no rules, but\\nseemed to leave each of us to be a law unto himself,\\nand soon we began to think we had fine times.\\nInstead of having to ask permission to leave the\\nroom, or to speak to each other in study hours, we\\nwere allowed to go out into the beautiful grove that\\nsurrounded the academy, at will. In summer, it was\\nno uncommon sight to the wondering farmer, who\\npassed that way, to behold half of the entire school\\nout at once. Some were in the branches of the trees,\\nwith their text books in hand, others down b}^ the\\nJackson Spring, and others still, engaged in the soul-\\ninspiring, if not intellectual, occupation of fishing,\\nwith grab-hooks for the yellow-breasted frogs which\\nrendered vocal the pond formed by quarrying rock\\nfor the new building. This pond was a popular\\nresort for those of us who preferred frog-fishing, or\\nskating in its season, or rafting across its raging\\nwaters, to storing our youthful minds with the\\nproblems of Euclid or the Odes of Horace.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nWe thought we were in clover, when contrast-\\ning our happy lot with our former experience in the\\npublic schools where daily floggings on the Spen-\\ncerian system (the heavy strokes down and the light\\nones up) had been our portion, or in comparison with\\nthe halcyon days of childhood, when Aunt Polly\\nHerron (honor be to her memory), mingled her\\ndoses of Alphabet Primer and the Shorter Catechism\\nwith Phillips, kisses, and chidings in about equal\\nquantities. Matters run thus smoothly for a fort-\\nnight, when on one memorable afternoon a few of\\nthe older pupils were cosily seated around the stove\\nin chairs, chatting merrily, while the Professor was\\nbusy at the blackboard. Suddenly, as a clap of\\nthunder from a summer sky, came a shout To\\nyour seats, ye Arabs and at the same instant we\\nbeheld the towering form of our hitherto mild tutor\\nadvancing toward us with outstretched hands, his\\neyes flashing, and his whole demeanor terrible.\\nYe vandals, disperse! he again roared, and jou\\nmay be assured we did disperse to our several seats,\\nnor stood upon the order of our going. Then seizing\\nthe chairs one by one, he threw them in the corner,\\nwhile cowering at our desks we listened to a\\nharangue more forcible than agreeable.\\nThis episode checked us for awhile, but we soon\\ndiscovered that it was only an episode, and that\\nwhile in his simulated wrath he would call us terri-\\nble names, that he loved each of us in his heart and", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\n53\\nwould no more have injured us than would artender\\nmother hurt her infant child.\\nWhen I reflect upon our manifold transgressions\\nand provocations, I wonder how he could have kept\\nhis temper as calm as he usually did, for a more\\nmischievous, tantalizing and dare-devil knot of boys\\nI think never got together at any other school. And\\nyet there were few of us who would have intention-\\nally grieved the dear gentlemen, for we truly loved\\nhim while annoying him by our follies.\\nAnother amusing incident resulted from the out-\\nbreak just recorded. A youth called Lew made his\\nappearance a few mornings after we had been dis-\\npersed as aforesaid, intending to enter the institu-\\ntion. He had heard some exaggerated reports of\\nProfessor Sams fierceness, and was evidently rather\\nreluctant to venture his precious carcass within\\nreach of the imagined danger. As we stood around\\nthe stove, awaiting the Professor s arrival, some of\\nus began to relate frightful stories of the fierce and\\nfiery temper of our teacher, stating among other\\nthings, that it was reported that he had to leave\\nMaryland for breaking one pupil s leg, and putting\\nout the eye of another, while in a passion.\\nOne after another added his testimony to the\\nawful dangers attendant on being under his charge,\\nand before long we saw that Lew was becoming\\nexceedingly nervous. We then gravely told him\\nthat every new scholar was soundly cowhided the", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nfirst day, so that Professor Sams could ascertain\\nexactly how much flogging he could safely endure.\\nAs if to corroborate this roorback the Professor at\\nthat moment entered, accoutred as usual, after his\\nride, with his rawhide in hand. As he passed us he\\nnoticed poor Lew, who was trying to hide behind\\nour group, and perceiving that he was a new acquisi-\\ntion, naturally wished to get his name and inform\\nhim as to his duties. Tapping Lew gentl}^ on the\\nshoulder with his whip, he beckoned toward the\\nback room where he disposed of his wrappings, and\\nin his curt fashion, said: Ah, new boy new boy\\nhither. Now you are going to catch it, we whis-\\npered, when the thoroughly frightened Lew, to the\\namazement of Mr. Sams, but to our intense delight,\\ntook to his heels, bounded like a deer out of the door\\nand fled to his home, tarrying not in all the plain,\\nnor looking once behind him.\\nHis father brought him back the next morning\\nand he managed to remain with us for awhile with-\\nout losing any of his members, but I do not think\\nProfessor Sams ever considered him entirely compos\\nmentis afterwards.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 55\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nWe soon found that thoroughness was a sine qua\\nnon with our principal. No smattering, no parrot-\\nlike repeating of the text, no skimming, was per-\\nmitted. He cared little for the amount gone over\\nor how many books we had gone through, the\\nquestion with him was, whether we thoroughly\\nunderstood what we attempted to recite.\\nNor was he satisfied unless we could give the\\nreason for everything how we knew a thing was so,\\nand why we were certain that we did know it. He\\nnever wished us to go a step further in any study\\nthan we were well-prepared for going. Like a wise\\nbuilder he laid his foundations upon rock, for he\\nwell knew that an education founded on anything\\nless than a perfect comprehension of the rudiments,\\nlike an edifice reared upon sand must come toppling\\ndown when the winds and waves of life blow and\\nbeat upon it.\\nGive us the law! was his constant demand of\\nus when construing a sentence in the classics, and\\nif we failed to give the law, to the grammar, go\\nwas his stentorian cry that made us quake like\\naspens. When he recalled us we generally knew", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nnot only the law, but why it was the law, nor did\\nwe soon forget it. I remember his keeping me for\\ntwo weeks upon a single verse of the New Testa-\\nment in Greek, and I can this day repeat and parse\\nevery word of it, although it is very little that I do\\nremember of what I was taught after leaving his\\ntuition.\\nAs an illustration of the good results of this sort\\nof training, it is a fact, so far as I have been able to\\nlearn, that every one of his pupils upon entering\\ncollege at once took a high stand in their classes,\\nespecially in the languages. Even those of us who\\nmade little pretense to close application to study,\\nstood far above the average, because we could not\\nhelp it, owing to the elementary training he had\\ngiven us.\\nI well remember when the writer, in company\\nwith the beloved and lamented Samuel Hibben was\\nexamined with fifty others, as an applicant for\\nadmission to the Junior class at Miami University.\\nWe did not sit together nor were we personally\\nknown to the Examiner, yet out of all that number\\nwe two were requested to remain, and the Examiner\\n(the now distinguished Professor Moflfatt, of Prince-\\nton, N. J.,) said that he desired to know who had\\nbeen our instructor. When we had informed him,\\nhe remarked that he wished they had the time\\nto give such thorough training in college and\\nthat he should like to make the acquaintance", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 57\\nof Professor Sams. I mention this, not to boast\\nof myself, for I regret to say that I rather retro-\\ngraded than improved afterwards, unlike my dear\\nfriend Hibben, who nobly built upon the sure intel-\\nlectual foundation Professor Sams had laid for him,\\nand what is better, builded the temple of a pure\\nand holy life upon a still firmer foundation the\\nRock of Ages.\\nBut to return to the Academy. Notwithstanding\\nthe fact that Mr. Sams peculiar method of impress-\\ning his instructions upon us may seem ridiculous to\\nthose who knew him not, it was so forcible that we\\nhave never forgotten and never shall forget his\\nlessons.\\nI recollect when one morning a young gentleman\\n(now a well-known physician, and whom we will\\ncall Johnson, because that is not his name), was\\ncalled upon to translate a portion of one of Cicero s\\norations. Being a modest youth and not a little in\\nawe of the Professor, he read the first sentence in a\\nlow, timid manner, and in a monotonous tone. Mr.\\nSams threw himself into a dramatic attitude and\\nshouted: Stop, Johnson, stop! Imagine Cicero\\nstanding bold and erect in the Roman Senate Do\\nyou suppose he would squeak (mimicking Johnson s\\nvoice and manner), Quosque tandem abutere nostra\\npatientia Catalina? No, Johnson, no; he would\\nexclaim (raising his voice to a thunder tone):\\nQuosque tandem abutere nostra patientia", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCatalina! rolling the r s and giving the a s\\nthe longest sound possible. He must have been seen\\nand heard to be appreciated.\\nWhile the classics were Professor Sams forte, yet\\nhis mathematical attainments were also of the\\nhighest order. Indeed, his mind seemed to embrace\\nall kinds of learning, and he appeared at home in\\nevery department of science.\\nAt that day little or no attention was paid to\\nMental Arithmetic, but the Professor was determined\\nthat we should learn to think and not merely to do\\nour sums, as we called it, by the rules laid down in\\nthe book. The multiplication table up to 100\\nseemed to be at his tongue s end, and he often\\nstartled us by asking some such question as 29\\ntimes 37, or, 18 times 14; quick, quick he would\\ncry when, of course, we were unable to answer cor-\\nrectly without a little time to reflect. But we\\nacquired the habit of thinking quickly and of\\ndepending upon our reasoning powers instead of\\nbeing confined to our text books.\\nProfessor Sams often seemed troubled at our want\\nof appreciation of our educational advantages, and\\nat the time we wasted in frivolity. On one occasion\\na party of the boys came late to school, having been\\nenticed away from the grounds to witness the\\nslaughter of certain beeves by a butcher in the\\nvicinity. One of the boys, now a judge upon the\\nBench, was called up to account for his tardiness.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 59\\nHe informed Professor Sams that they had been at\\nthe slaughter-house.\\nMy God! exclaimed he in tones that might\\nhave waked the dead, can I believe my ears?\\nWhat, leave the halls and porticos of learning to\\nrevel in the shambles of the butcher Fie on you,\\nfor shame. It is safe to conclude that young man\\nwas never known to so revel again.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nProfessor Sams earnestly endeavored to inculcate\\nmanliness. I do not know whether schoolboys\\nnow-a-days indulge in fisticuffs as much as we did,\\nbut there was scarcely a noon or recess passed with-\\nout a personal combat between us. Many blamed\\nMr. Sams for not putting a stop to this, but whether\\nhe knew it or not he seldom interfered with or\\nrebuked this pugnacious propensity. I think he\\nwished us to be self-reliant and to learn to take our\\nown parts, for we noticed that whenever a large\\npupil bullied a smaller one, the old gentleman was\\npretty sure to know of it, and to administer a fitting\\nrebuke. But a fair and square, stand up and knock\\ndown between physical equals, never seemed to\\nattract his attention in the least. An incident\\noccurred one day, while school was in session, that\\nwill show his peculiar manner of treating such\\nthings.\\nThere was one of our number who was a noted\\nbully over his weaker fellows, and as is usually the\\ncase, was a coward. I will call him Jones. He had\\nbeen in the habit of cuffing and otherwise persecut-\\ning a little fellow whom we will designate as Brown.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 61\\nThe latter had patiently endured Jones persecu-\\ntion for a long time. One day while the Professor\\nwas busy at the blackboard, Jones began as usual to\\ntorment little Brown, who sat just in front of him.\\nOur desks were furnished with very large and heavy\\nglass inkstands, and finally. Brown, provoked beyond\\nendurance, seized one of these, full of ink, and threw\\nit with all his force, striking Jones square in the\\nforehead, cutting quite a gash. The heavy missile\\nrolled and reverberated over the floor, when Profes-\\nsor Sams wheeled suddenly around, just in time to\\nsee Brown s arm yet extended, and the commingled\\nblood and ink trickling down Jones face in black\\nand red stripes. We all looked aghast, expecting a\\nfurious scene, and poor little Brown sank back into\\nhis seat, pale with terror and supposing his last day\\nhad come. The Professor gazed at them a moment,\\nand then said in a low, gentle voice Jones, your\\nface is dirty go wash your face. Brown, pick up\\nthe inkstand, don t waste the ink, and then turned\\nto his work as calmly as if nothing had occurred to\\ninterrupt it. In his heart, he was doubtless glad\\nthat Jones had met his deserts.\\nOnly on one or two occasions was corporeal pun-\\nishment ever resorted to at the academy, and then\\nit was rather threatened than administered, the\\nculprit being let off just as he supposed he was to be\\nskinned alive. The Professor was as peculiar at\\nthese times as ever. He sung out in the tone of a", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nboatswain on board ship: All hands put away\\nbooks, and prepare to witness punishment, and\\nthen he stalked majestically to and fro between the\\nrows of desks, never deigning once to glance at the\\nintended victim, and causing each one of us to\\ninquire, Is it I then suddenly he would stop\\nand about face in front of the criminal and\\npointing with his long index finger; would say:\\nHither, boy, hither. He would then take the\\nunhappy youth by two or three hairs of the forelock\\nseized between finger and thumb, and would lead\\nhim around the room once or twice, and then halt-\\ning him, would proceed with a lecture not easily\\nto be forgotten, either by its recipient or the look-\\ners-on.\\nBut he must have been a poor disciplinarian, you\\nare ready to exclaim. Well, it is true that his prac-\\ntice was contrary to all commonly received theories\\nof school discipline, but after all, one word from him\\nwas more effectual with us than all the whipping\\nwe had ever received at the public schools, and\\njudging by results, it was not a failure. His pupils\\nprogressed better in their studies and became just\\nas good, useful, and honorable men as those of any\\nother educational establishment with which I have\\nbeen acquainted.\\nWith all his seeming vagaries in government, he\\nmanaged, both by example and precept, to instill\\ninto the minds of most of us a regard for truth.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 63\\nhonor, and justice, and taught us to despise hypoc-\\nrisy and meanness of every kind.\\nWhenever we have failed in after life to be all\\nthat could be desired, it was through no fault of his.\\nEven the worst of us would have been worse if we\\nhad never been under his training. While some\\nof us, whom he styled mercurial, could not help\\nlaughing at his oddities, we all loved and respected\\nhim, and at this far distant time still revere his\\nmemory.\\nWhile he loved to encourage his pupils and to\\nimbue them with proper self-respect, he quickly per-\\nceived the fact whenever any of them became self-\\nconceited, and no one could better take down any\\nsuperabundance of egotism than he. Of course we\\nwere at the age when we had a tolerably comfortable\\nopinion of ourselves, and, perhaps, displayed the\\nfact in our actions. As illustrating his method of\\nchecking this propensity, the writer will never for-\\nget the last interview between Mr. Sams and him-\\nself, as teacher and jDupil.\\nAfter having enjoyed the advantages of the Acad-\\nem}^ for several years it was thought best by my\\nfriends to send me to college. I had an idea that\\ngoing to college was rather a great thing, and felt\\nsomewhat self-important at the prospect.\\nOn the Friday of the week before I expected to\\nleave, I thought I ought to bid the Professor good-\\nbye, and at the same time felt not a little proud of", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 PEOFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nthe announcement I was about to make to him. I\\nthought that it would perhaps raise me in his\\nestimation, and that he would prophesy scholastic\\nand literary honors for me, flattering to my soul.\\nDoubtless I showed something of this in my manner\\nas I approached him just before the close of school,\\nand holding out my hand informed him that as that\\nwas probabl}^ the last day I would be under his\\ncharge, I wished to say farewell. He raised his\\nclosed eyelids in a fashion peculiarly his own, then\\nsuddenly ejaculated in his sharp, incisive way\\nAh, last day; where are you going? where are you\\ngoing To college, I rather pompously replied.\\nColle-g-e. What are you going to do at college\\nThis puzzled me a little, but I answered hesita-\\ntingly To learn, I suppose.\\nHe burst out Ha ha Going to learn, glad to\\nhear it, time to commence, boy. Ha ha ha he s\\ngoing to learn. My dear child, you rejoice my heart.\\nHere you have been for years, surrounded by all the\\nappliances to a liberal education, but you have been\\nlight-minded, mercurial, frivolous, like a cock on a\\ndunghill, you have scratched away the pearls but\\nnow I am happy to know (here whispering as if to\\nhimself) he s going to learn.\\nI left him after a few very kind words, which\\nallayed my mortification somewhat, an humbler if\\nnot a wiser boy. Yet never was there a preceptor\\nwho took more interest in the career of his pupils", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 65\\nafter they left him, or felt greater pride at the suc-\\ncess or distinction to which any of them attained\\nin after life.\\nAfter spending some time at college, I was at\\nhome spending the vacation. An old schoolmate at\\nthe academy, Will McR who had also been\\naway at college, proposed to me that we should call\\nand pay our respects to our old friend and teacher.\\nSo one fine morning we walked out to his residence,\\nand having been invited to enter, we sat down and\\nawaited the appearance of Professor Sams. Our\\ninterview was characteristic of his original manner\\nof dealing with us.\\nIn a few minutes he came bounding into the\\nroom with the agility and vivacity of a lad of six-\\nteen. He extended to us two fingers of each hand\\n(he usually shook hands with one finger), exclaimed\\nmy dear boys, I am glad to see you! and then\\nleaped upon a lounge, crossed his legs a la Turk, his\\nlong toga girded by a surcingle, and a skull cap\\nperched upon his head.\\nOf course we expected he would ask us the usual\\nquestions concerning our health or our college\\ncareer, but the first words he uttered, addressing\\nhimself to Will, were McR tell us about the\\ncurrency, the effect of the influx of California gold\\nupon the currency. Poor Mac, struggling to sup-\\npress his laughter, stammered out confusedly that\\nhe did not know much about the subject. What,", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nbeen to college and can t tell us about the cur-\\nrency Of course this tickled me immensely, as I\\nthought what a good joke I had on my companion.\\nBut my mirth was of short duration, for, wheeling\\naround toward me, he said S tell us about\\nthe currency. I could only murmur that I had\\nseen so little of it that I could tell nothing about it.\\nAh, said he, light-minded and frivolous as ever,\\nbeen to college and can t tell us about the currency.\\nWell, I 11 tell you.\\nThereupon, he proceeded for about fifteen minutes\\nto deliver a most philosophical and instructive dis-\\ncourse, expressed in chaste and beautiful language,\\nshowing the probable results of the discovery of gold\\nin California upon the material, scientific, religious,\\nand literary interests of the world. It was really a\\ngrand lecture upon one phase of political economy.\\nWe forgot any feeling of amusement in absorbing\\ninterest in his treatment of the theme, and felt as\\nthe pupils of the ancient Greek philosophers must\\nhave done while drinking draughts of wisdom in\\nthe academic groves of Athens or Sparta. Abruptly,\\nhowever, he broke off, with Comprehend, McR\\ncomprehend Perfectly, replied Mac, boldly.\\nThen tell me what I said, commanded the Pro-\\nfessor. Again I rejoiced in my heart to see my jovial\\nyoung friend completely nonplussed. But the tables\\nwere quickly turned on me by the same question\\nComprehend, S comprehend?", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 67\\nFearing to be caught in the same way, I an-\\nswered that I thought I hardly understood the sub-\\nject well enough to attempt to repeat what I had\\nheard. Phoebus! he roared, been to colle-g-e\\nand can t understand a simple theme like this.\\nWell, well, my dear boys, perhaps it isn t your\\nfault. As the shortest way of getting out of our di-\\nlemma we rose to take our departure. The Professor\\nhopped nimbly down from his couch, again extended\\nhis two fingers, and asked us if we would stay and\\nhelp eat a goose which we understood as an invi-\\ntation to dinner, but being conscientiously opposed\\nto committing cannibalism, we declined to partake\\nof his kindly offered repast, and bade him good\\nmorning. Neither of us ever said college to him\\nagain.\\nIn conclusion, I can only say, that notwith-\\nstanding his harmless eccentricities, he was a ripe\\nscholar and a pure-minded, noble-hearted man who\\ntaught from love of teaching, and in whose crown\\nof rejoicing will sj^arkle many bright jewels the\\nnames of scores of his pupils who have risen to\\nplaces of honor in the land, and have lived lives of\\nusefulness.\\nHe has passed to his reward, but his memor}^ will\\never be green in our hearts and his grave a Mecca\\nwhich his living pupils will delight to visit, not\\nmore to mourn his loss than to rejoice that his", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nlabors having ended on earth, he has gone up\\nhigher to a haven of eternal rest. As a good citi-\\nzen, a true patriot, a kind Instructor, and a bene-\\nfactor of his race, take him all in all, we ne er shall\\nlook upon his like again.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\n69\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nWe resume the thread of our narrative. After\\nleaving the Academy, Mr. Sams was solicited, by a\\nnumber of citizens, to receive their sons as private\\npupils at his house. He received a limited number\\nof young men, and spent the next two years in pre-\\nparing them for college.\\nHis interest in the Common Schools had never\\nwavered, and in 1851 he called the attention of the\\npeople of Hillsboro to the benefit likely to accrue\\nto the youth by the adoption of the plan of the law\\nof 1849, authorizing Graded Schools. After some dis-\\ncussion it was resolved by popular vote to organize\\nthe schools under this law. This result was due, in\\na great degree, to the exertion of Professor Sams.\\nfhe Union Schools were opened soon afterward,\\nand in 1853 the use of the Academy building was\\nobtained for the accommodation of the higher grades\\nof the schools. On the opening of the schools in\\n1853, Professor Sams was employed to teach the\\nAncient Languages and Higher Mathematics. He\\ncontinued in this position until 1856, when he was\\nelected Superintendent of the Schools. He remained\\nin charge of the schools for two years. He was now", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nin his seventieth year, and feeling need of rest, he\\nretired from the Union Schools and again received\\na few pupils at his residence.\\nDuring his years of service in the Academy and\\nthe Union Schools he had been a member of the\\nBoard of Examiners and had not in the least re-\\nmitted his labors in that connection. At the same\\ntime he took great interest in everything looking to\\nthe educational interests of the people.\\nHe frequently lectured before a public Lyceum in\\nexistence during the same years. Several of these\\nlectures attracted a great deal of notice, not only on\\naccount of their original views, but as they evinced\\ngreat study and research. Amongst these were lec-\\ntures on War, Novel Reading, and Ancestry.\\nAlthough generally absorbed in educational mat-\\nters. Professor Sams took a deep interest in all politi-\\ncal matters affecting the welfare of the country.\\nHe was deeply interested in the result of the civil\\nwar of the rebellion, and rejoiced when it ended in\\nthe salvation of the American Union. He intruded\\nhis views on none, but never hesitated to avow them\\nU]3on all proper occasions.\\nHe had great admiration for the American sol-\\ndiery, and since the war always made it a point to\\nbe present at the ceremonies on Decoration Day.\\nWhen in his 85th year he fell in on foot with\\nthe soldiers and marched through the heat and dust\\nto each of the cemeteries and participated in the", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 71\\nexercises. He also attended the exercises in 1878\\nwhen in his 90th year. Assigning as a reason his\\ngreat age, he, in November, 1867, resigned his posi-\\ntion as School Examiner. The Probate Judge, in\\naccepting his resignation, said in a letter to him\\nI take this opportunity to tender you my own and\\nthe thanks of the public for your valuable services\\nand the establishment of a fitting standard of quali-\\nfication for the teachers of our county.\\nDuring the remaining years of his life Professor\\nSams withdrew from public employment and spent\\nhis time in the retirement of his home. A few\\nyears after the death of his first wife in 1865, he\\nmarried again. His second wife, Anne M. Mercer,\\nhad been a friend of himself and family for many\\nyears before. She made him a loving and faithful\\ncompanion during the closing years of his life, and\\nsurviving him, keeps green his memory.\\nProfessor Sams had always enjoyed letter writing,\\nand in this, displayed the same ability he did in\\nother literar}^ matters. In 1872, a young lady of\\nHillsboro, whom he had known from childhood,\\nwent to India as a missionary. He carried on with\\nher for some time a very interesting correspondence.\\nThese letters not only show how thorough a\\nknowledge he had of India, but reflect his religious\\nviews very plainly. We give some extracts from\\ntwo of these letters\\nIn regard to India, England has done much.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nand is doing much, but every step she has taken\\nhas been bitterly opposed by the native prejudices,\\nand obstructed by the incessant wars waged against\\nher growing supremacy by the jealousy of the\\nnative princes. India was besides, after the victory\\nof Blassey, governed by a company of merchants\\nwho thought more of their own profit than of the\\nmoral or intellectual improvement of the natives.\\nBut since the Queen has assumed the Sovereignty,\\nonly fourteen years ago, there is promise of greater\\namelioration than ever before.\\nWith regard to missionary work, I have seen in\\nLitteWs Living Age a very remarkable paper taken\\nfrom Fraser^s Magazine, which, after exhibiting a\\ngreat number of decided failures, shows how, in the\\nopinion of the writer, success may be attained, not\\nonly in mission work but in the ultimate universal\\nacceptance of the religion of Christ.\\nHaving now an opportunity of commingling\\nwith many classes of people, you will thus be able\\nto observe how largely God has endued the human\\nheart with good, and how, mainly, the views of men\\nspring from prejudice and ignorance. Your Cal-\\ncutta gentleman leans to Theism. That is so nat-\\nural, being the grand unique principle of the four,\\nperhaps, but certainly of the three great religions\\nof the earth, Judaism, Islamism, and Christianity.\\nI must even believe that God is in the Heathen\\nmind behind Buddah, Confucius, and Zoroaster.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 73\\nBut there need be no fear that Theism, pure\\nand simple, will not in good time be sanctified by\\nthe acceptance of Christ and the blessed comforts of\\nhis promises, and the observance of his divine\\nprecepts. Have you spent any thoughts over the\\nKismet you mentioned to me, the characteristic of\\nof the ordinary Hindu s mind? As you see it, there\\nit is, the common fatalism of all Asia, of the Turks\\nwho are Asiatic, as well, the idea of a power inferior\\nto the Gods, arbitrarily determining all events with-\\nout any interdependence among them.\\nThe Greeks and Romans held this power as con-\\ntrolling the Gods. The Bible (Matth. xviii, 29.)\\nteaches us that God is the disposer of events.\\nHence predestination, as it is in your church and\\nthe Church of England. You know, perhaps, better\\nthan I, what numerous volumes have been written\\non the subject of Freewill and Necessity.\\nIn this doctrine, as taught in our churches, I\\nam bound, as a good churchman, to believe. But as\\nall God s providences are produced in a benevolent\\nand salutary order, we may, without presumption,\\nendeavor to trace the manner of that order. No\\nway is safer in doing so than a careful and honest\\ncontemplation of the individual experience. In the\\ncourse of my long life, I have, as you may suppose,\\npassed through many crises, and have had to make\\ncritical decisions, some more or less wise, some very\\nfoolish, indeed.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nNow, what I know, is this. I could not have\\nacted otherwise than as I did act at the moment of\\neach decision, being actuated or influenced by a\\nvariety of circumstances, facts, some of which, may\\nbe mentioned.\\nHereditary organism, personal idiosyncrasies,\\nmy age and experience, and state of knowledge.\\nThe attractions on one side and repulsions on the\\nother, each one of which was an invincible force.\\nIn fine, I think you will agree with me that there\\nare serious limitations to what is called freedom\\nof action.\\nNo, the religion of Jesus must be sown in the\\nheart and the conscience, and not compelled by\\nsword or sceptre. Constantine did not proclaim the\\nGod of Israel was his God until a majority of his\\npeople had abandoned the Old Paganism and\\naccepted the worship of Christ and the rule of His\\nGospel.\\nIn one of the letters of his correspondent some\\nbad English she had heard, was alluded to.\\nMr. Sams, in his answer, says\\nI will now tell you something that I think Mr.\\nTaine did not. The Folk speech is not the educated\\nlanguage. It is the speech of provincialism, of\\npatois as in France and Italy, but more so. Corn-\\nw^all, in the Southwest, is of the Old British, as is\\nWales. Kent, Sussex and Devon are Anglo-Saxon,\\nas are all the counties bordering on the Thames.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 75\\nLincoln, Suffolk and Norfolk, and other midland\\ncounties are Danish. In Cumberland are some\\nremains of Romish speech, as of roads and fortifica-\\ntions.\\nThe Folk speech, besides, has not been touched\\nuntil just now, perhaps, by the voice of education,\\nand finally the feet of the folk cling to the sod\\nmost wonderfully.\\nThe millions never leave the native haunts, and\\nit thus happens that the Folk speech is variant,\\ncoarse and thick, and a source of wonder to many.\\nBut after all they are the sons of the men who won\\nat Poictiers and Agincourt two of the most extraor-\\ndinary victories in history.\\nIn another of his letters Professor Sams thus alludes\\nto the arbitration of the Alabama Claims\\nI think the decree of the Arbiters was just and\\nreasonable, and the humiliation England has endured\\nin the face of Christendom was but her due.\\nOn the subject of the education of women in\\nIndia, and referring to a Mr. Chatterjea, a Hindoo\\nReformer, he says that man may yet be an instru-\\nment of great good in bringing a new line of pro-\\ngress to the consideration of her people. But it\\nwould be well he should know that he is at least a\\ncentury before the age. He reaches after too much,\\nnot too much to hope for, but too much to make a\\npublic demand for.\\nThe equality he wants for women in social and", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\ncivil life can only come from their being educated\\nand thus enabled to demand it for themselves.\\nWhat has helped our women so much is that higher\\neducation they have received from the schools, the\\nfree press and the best elements of the society they\\nmove in. That good knowledge of their right gives\\ncourage and strength to their convictions, and they\\nare triumphing gradually to the achievement of\\ntheir ends.\\nMr. Chatterjea should therefore work for educa-\\ntion, giving thereto all his forces and setting forth\\nnothing that is likely to prove rather an obstacle\\nthan a means to his success. On this account he is\\nwise to work without any allusions whatever to\\nreligious opinions.\\nWe close these extracts with one from a long letter\\nwritten September, 1877, when Mr. Sams was in his\\n89th year. There is nothing in the handwriting or\\nthe language of the letter to indicate the great age\\nof the writer. It shows the remarkable vigor of his\\nintellect only a little more than a year before his\\ndeath. He begins:\\nTwo things are wonderful, with how scanty a\\nprovision of ideas the human creature can pass\\nthrough life on the one hand, and on the other how\\nvast in amount and how various in character is the\\nknowledge which science places in the hands of the\\neducator to disseminate among the generation that\\nare now and are to come.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 77\\nWith all, the question arises, whether the unlet-\\ntered and untaught are less happy than are the\\nothers who have spent their days or years in trying\\nto understand the relation of the phenomena of\\nnature, of morals, and of mind.\\nAbout seventy years ago I read that beautiful\\npoem, Gay s, The Shepherd and the Philosopher,\\nand to my boyish mind it clearly seemed that the\\nworthy Shepherd showed a knowledge more exact\\nand from it a wisdom and content, more productive\\nof happiness, than wherewithal the grave Philoso-\\npher could assure him.\\nAnd to-day I envy the enjoyments of Leather\\nstocking more than I do those of the Shah of\\nPersia. Among the parks, and streams, and hills\\nof Colorado may be found, I think, a life happier\\nthan that of Bismark with his foot on the neck of\\nFrance, happier than the Archbishop of Canterbury\\nwith hundreds of his clergy praying that the con-\\nfessions of the people may be made to them rather\\nthan to God happier than those Bourbons and\\nOrleanses who are running about Europe in chase\\nof a throne from which there is ho exit but through\\nexile or the guillotine.\\nI hope, and trust and believe that you wdll\\ntriumph in your successful educating of the women\\nof India. They will read and write the great\\nuniversal language and will look with contempt\\nand scorn upon their lowly neighbors. They will\\ncome into some sociality with a more intelligent", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nclass and will be assailed by all the envies and\\nlongings and rivalries and aspirations of that class\\nonly at last to find that while they have lost caste\\nwith their old friends they never can equalize\\nthemselves with the new.\\nBut do not be alarmed, I am not coming over to\\nthe Punjaub to preach any such heterodox doctrines\\nas these. Neither do I entertain the slightest doubt\\nthat gradually the efforts of education will be\\ntriumphant, and that the children of a not very\\ndistant Hindu generation will be in mind, if not\\nin number, the ruling power of the Indian Penin-\\nsula.\\nFor it would be impossible that labors so persis-\\ntent, so earnest, so judiciously applied and so noble\\nin motive, should not in due time bear the happy\\nfruits that are expected of them.\\nThere is no work in the world so sure of return\\nas that of the teacher if he be competent and honest.\\nNor is there a laborer in any field more likely to\\nleave worthy successors to continue and enlarge his\\nachievements.\\nAmid the drawbacks, the discouragements that\\nfret us in the advancing march of our civilization\\nthere is consolation in the growing conviction of\\nthe world that there is no safety for society but in\\nright education and in increasing numbers of wise\\nand good men among the gatherers of this world s\\nwealth who are constantly dispensing the means of\\nextending the benefits of knowledge and culture", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 79\\nnot only to their nearer neighbors but to the most\\ndistant regions of the earth.\\nIn another letter speaking of Mathew Arnold s\\nLiterature and Dogmatism, he says Righteous-\\nness above all is what is insisted on. Righteousness\\nis the life Dogma is in the thought. The life is the\\ntest. The mistake is in making dogma the test.\\nAgain he refers to what he calls that terrible article\\nin Scribner, Modern Skepticism. He says\\nWhatever man may doubt about, there will never\\nbe a doubt about Righteousness. What does the\\nLord demand of us but to do justly, to love mercy\\nand to walk humbly with one God. Micah, vi, 8.\\nThe religion of Christ, is, on that account,\\nimpregnable, eternal. The Sects may differ about\\ndogmata, but the Church of Christ is founded on\\nthe doctrine of Righteousness.\\nOn the 22d of September, 1877, considering the\\nevils to be contended with by those striving for the\\nworld s regeneration, he writes thus forcibly\\nWhat can we do against all these evils? Almost\\nnothing. Law and its penalties, Gospel and its min-\\nistry, Education and its professors have been toiling\\nfor many centuries; and yet how imperfect are the\\nresults of it all. But still I feel God ruleth and\\nordereth all and I bow beneath His holy name\\nand lay my wearied heart and humble faith as\\nChrist has taught me, before the throne, and receive\\nthe ineffable blessing of that Peace of God which\\npasseth all understanding as my final rest.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nThroughout his long life, Professor Sams was a\\nmember of the Protestant Episcopal Church. We\\nhave seen the peculiar circumstances under which\\nhe partook of his first communion, when a poor and\\nfriendless boy at Rathdrum, Ireland. We remem-\\nber his reading the services of the church in the\\nold log school house in Maryland. His zeal for his\\nchurch grew as his years increased, and soon after\\nhis removal to Hillsboro he began to hope for the\\nestablishment of a branch of his church in that\\ntown.\\nIt was largely due to his efforts that some twenty-\\nfive years ago a congregation of the Episcopal\\nChurch was gathered together and a church erected\\nin Hillsboro. He was always in his place in the\\nchurch and was for twenty-five consecutive years\\nthe Senior Warden.\\nHe was always an advocate of the establishment\\nof public libraries, and was greatly interested in\\nthe opening of a Free Reading Room and Library\\nin Hillsboro. His last appearance in public was\\non the occasion of the inauguration of the Reading\\nRoom and Library in July, 1877. On that occasion", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 81\\nhe made a few remarks expressing his gratitude to\\nGod that he had lived long enough to see in Hills-\\nboro what he had so wished for, a Free Public\\nLibrary. He became a constant visitor to this\\nlibrary, and it was the last place he visited before\\nhe was attacked with his last illness.\\nFor thirty years previous to this time Professor\\nSams had enjoyed excellent health and a remarka-\\nble possession of his faculties of body and mind.\\nHis personal appearance was striking. He carried\\nhimself erect as an Indian, and was always brisk\\nand active in his movements. He had something\\nof a military bearing, and his personal appearance\\nalways attracted attention. None who saw him on\\nthe streets during the autumn of 1878 supposed he\\nhe was near the end of his long and useful life.\\nHis ninetieth birthday came on the 12th of\\nNovember, 1878, and although his health and\\nstrength gave some signs of failing he bid fair to\\nsee his hundredth birthday. He continued his\\naccustomed exercise, and on the 23d of November\\nmade a call on a friend and spent an hour at the\\nReading Room. Returning to his home he seemed\\nfeverish and to have taken a slight cold. During\\nthe afternoon he spent two hours in conversation\\nwith an old pupil who had called on him.\\nThe next day he grew worse, and on the 27th was\\nattacked with spells of vomiting. He took to his\\nbed and his physician was called in. From that", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS.\\ntime he grew worse and seemed to realize that his\\nend was near. He lay calm and resigned, with his\\ncountenance expressing perfect repose and trust.\\nAt times he spoke words of consolation to his wife\\nwho attended him, and at other times repeated pas-\\nsages in Latin and Greek from his favorite classical\\nauthors. The disease did not seem to yield to reme-\\ndies, and he continued to grow worse. On Sunday\\nmorning, December 1st, 1878, at 7 o clock he quietly\\npassed away. His work on earth well and faith-\\nfully done, he went to his reward.\\nHis funeral services were held in St. Mary s Epis-\\ncopal Church, on December 4th, and were, as he\\ndesired, free from display and ostentation. The\\nRev. W. T. Bowen officiated, and spoke eloquently\\nand feelingly of the life and services of Professor\\nSams. His remains were followed to the grave by\\nsorrowing friends and relatives, and laid away amid\\nthe hills he loved so well. As he was beloved in life,\\nhe was universally lamented at his death.\\nThose who have followed us through the preceding\\npages have traced the career of Isaac Sams from\\ninfancy. Thrown an orphan on the world at an\\nearly age he preserved his purity and goodness.\\nWhile but a youth a burning desire for an education\\ntook possession of him. Under many discourage-\\nments he pursued this object to its full fruition.\\nWith no advantages of teachers, schools or colleges,\\nhe acquired a store of knowledge that placed him in\\nthe front rank of the educated men of his day.", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "PROFESSOR ISAAC SAMS. 8S\\nThe story of his life exemplifies how learning\\nmay be attained by perseverance and industry, and\\nhow good a use may be made of it when once\\nacquired. His career as a teacher shows what may\\nbe accomplished by the true teacher who feels the\\nglorious inspiration of his calling.\\nHe believed the work of the teacher second in\\nimportance to none other, and he always acted and\\ntaught in accordance with that belief.\\nHis pupils are scattered all over the land. AVher-\\never they are, they feel and appreciate the obliga-\\ntions they are under to him for arousing within\\nthem nobler purposes and a higher ambition for\\nmental culture.\\nThey respect his blameless life and spotless char-\\nacter, no less than they honor his literary acquire-\\nments and professional services.\\nLife s fitful fever over, he now enjoys his rest in\\nthe bright and better land beyond the stars.\\nFINIS.", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "NOV 9 1300", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3158", "width": "2180", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "w^m^M-^mm^\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n022 139 991 2", "height": "3132", "width": "2211", "jp2-path": "sketchoflifeprof00dogg_0104.jp2"}}