Memorials of Horatio Balch Hackett

e idea he had had of trying his fortune at Brunswick was abandoned, and he was sent to Amherst. CHAPTER II. 1826-1834. STUDENT LIFE AT AMHERST AND ANDOVER, EMBRACING COLLEGE TUTORSHIP. A month after the Exhibition at Andover, in the latter part of September, 1826, the youthful aspirant after learning was admitted to the Freshman Class in Amherst College. The excellent Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D., the second President of the College, had then been for three years in that office, which he continued to hold until 1845. Among the Faculty at that time, special mention, on account of after intimacy and friendship, may be made of the Rev. Nathan Welby Fiske, Professor of the Greek Language and Literature; and the Rev. Solomon Peck, D. D., who, for seven years, from 1825 till 1832, was Professor of the Latin and Hebrew Languages and Literatures. Dr. Peck died June 12th, 1874. Among letters which he had written, the reperusal of which was occasioned by his decease,was one, dated Amherst College, September 2oth, 1826, in which, speaking of admissions to the new class, he says: "Also young Hackett, who passed as splendid an examination as I have ever heard." Other professors were the Rev. Edward Hitchcock, D. D., LL. D.; the Rev. Samuel L. Worcester, D. D.; and the Rev. Jacob Abbott, the well-known writer and teacher. The closest and tenderest of the associations with new teachers which the young collegian here formed, was that with the Rev. Bela Bates Edwards, D. D....