A memorial of John C. Dalton, M.D. : an address delivered before the Middlesex north district medical society, April 27, 1864 / by John O. Green.

  • John Orne Green
Date:
1864
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Credit: A memorial of John C. Dalton, M.D. : an address delivered before the Middlesex north district medical society, April 27, 1864 / by John O. Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IO ““In the spring of 1807, being then twelve years of age, I was supposed, by the aid of this and other means, to have been sufficiently indoctrinated in the elements to justify promotion to a higher sphere; and it having been decided about this time that I should ‘go to college,’ I was put under the care of Dr. Luther Stearns, Principal of Medford Academy, then at the height of its celebrity, with whom I re- mained until, with the sixty-two afterward constitut- ing our class, I entered Harvard in 1810. Among the distinguished men of this class were James Walker, William H. Prescott, FE. W. P. Greenwood, and Pliny Merrick. ‘‘ Here forming,” he says, ‘‘ many friendships which time has served only to confirm and strengthen, and which have bestrewed the path of my after-life with Posts The four years of college life were filled with con- scientious and industrious effort. Among other dis- tinctions, in his Senior year he wrote for the Bow- doin Prize. The subject was some question of pol- itics; ‘for I remember,” says his college chum, “he took out of the Library ‘Sidney on Govern- ment,’ in reference to it. I also thought of writing at the same time, but had not perseverance enough, and did not do it. When he won the prize, he laid out a part of it in a book which he gave me, — ‘ John- | son’s Lives of the Poets.” I have it still. I believe he did it to soften my mortification.” “‘Graduating in 1814, and not having yet de- cided upon a profession, I accepted from my former instructor an ushership in his Academy, having had some little experience in the honorable calling of ped-
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