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2 In regard to the matter of which you wrote. I have to say that I have no doubt that you can complete the scientific course
in one year as you suggest. I would advise you to get Looms' new work on Astronomy and study, carefully what you can of it.
I would recommend also that you read Blair's Rhet- oric Besides Astronomy, one illegible a day with me for a term, or illegible
illegible , will enable you to complete the course in mathematics. I think you would be better satisfied, however, to spend
two years more here, and study Latin French: and I have a proposition to make you which will enable you to 3 do it with
little or no expense It is my purpose to open next Spring or Fall a Family Boarding School for Boys, at my house near the
Uni- versity grounds. I am about putting up a building for the purpose. I shall want some student connected with the University
to board with me and have some super- vision of the boys out of school hours and perform some other service which will interfere
hardly at all with his own studies Now I know of no one whom I would prefer for the place to yourself. Would it suit you?
Let me hear from you on this point soon. We have this term nearly