Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity, 1748-1820 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Diary of David McClure, Doctor of Divinity, 1748-1820 School. At the age of fifteen, after a brief experience in a shop, he was sent to Dr. Wheelock's school at Lebanon, Conn., to prepare to become a missionary to the In dians. In 1765 he entered Yale College, and graduated in 1769, in the same class with the elder President Dwight. The late Rev. E. H. Gillett, D.D., in an article in Hours at Home, Feb., 1870, entitled Yale College One Hundred Years Ago, gives a few extracts from letters of mcclure and his schoolmate, David Avery. The former, under date of Oct. 30, I765, writes to Dr. Wheelock of the dreadful way in which Freshmen are handled by the upper-class men. Freshmen, says he, have attained almost the happiness of slaves. Oct. 30, 1767, he writes: Jonne [john Wheelock, later Presi dent of Dartmouth College, then a Freshman at Yale] has been ordered up once or twice into the long garret with the rest of his class, and I think twice alone. It gives me great grief to see such practices held up in this seat of learning, and so little religious manners prevalent. In another letter, written after his experience among the Oneida Indians, he says: Mr. Johnson and I rarely converse in any other language [than Indian]. I hope not to lose what little I have already attained. As his diary also shows, his intention to be a missionary to the Indians was always before his mind. Later in his college course he writes about Dr. Daggett as follows: The Rev. President and tutors are universally loved in Col lege, and have a tender concern for our future as well as present welfare and happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.