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From a few students and teachers we became a college. After a while our buildings went up on Broad Street alongside the Temple Church, and after another while we became a university. FROM A FEW STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WE BECAME A COLLEGE AFTER A WHILE OUR BUILDINGS WENT UP ON BROAD STREET ALONGSIDE THE TEMPLE CHURCH AND AFTER ANOTHER WHILE WE BECAME A UNIVERSITY
I will begin teaching you myself,’ I said, ‘and at least you will in that way make a beginning’; and I named the evening. “His face brightened and he eagerly said that he would come, and left me; but in a little while he came hurrying back again. ‘May I bring a friend with me?’ he said. “I told him to bring as many as he wanted to, for more than one would be an advantage, and when the evening came there were six friends with him. And that first evening I began to teach them the foundations of Latin.” He stopped as if the story was over. He was looking out thoughtfully into the waning light, and I knew that his mind was busy with those days of the beginning of the institution he so loves, and whose continued success means so much to him. In a little while he went on: “That was the beginning of it, and there is little more to tell. By the third evening the number of pupils had increased to forty; others joined in helping me, and a room was hired; then a little house, then a second house.  TO ME ONE EVENING A WEEK AND I WILL BEGIN TEACHING YOU MYSELF I SAID AND AT LEAST YOU WILL IN THAT WAY MAKE A BEGINNING AND I NAMED THE EVENING HIS FACE BRIGHTENED AND HE EAGERLY SAID THAT HE WOULD COME AND LEFT ME BUT IN A LITTLE WHILE HE CAME HURRYING BACK AND SAID MAY I BRING A FRIEND WITH ME HE SAID I TOLD HIM TO BRING AS MANY AS HE WANTED TO FOR MORE THAN ONE WOULD BE AN ADVANTAGE AND WHEN THE EVENING CAME THERE WERE SIX FRIENDS WITH HIM AND THAT FIRST EVENING I BEGAN TO TEACH THEM THE FOUNDATIONS OF LATIN HE STOPPED AS IF THE STORY WERE OVER HE WAS LOOKING OUT THOUGHTFULLY OVER THE WANING LIGHT AND I KNEW THAT HIS MIND WAS BUSY IN THOSE DAYS OF THE BEGINNING OF THE INSTITUTION HE SO LOVES AND WHOSE CONTINUED SUCCESS MEANS SO MUCH TO HIM IN A LITTLE WHILE HE WENT ON THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF IT AND THERE WAS LITTLE MORE TO TELL BY THE THIRD EVENING THE NUMBER OF PUPILS HAD INCREASED OF FORTY OTHERS JOINED IN HELPING ME AND A ROOM WAS HIGHER THAN A LITTLE HOUSE THAN A SECOND HOUSE
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