larn’d things, and he wants me to larn Inglish only, and book-keepin’, and surveyin’, so as to ’tend store and run a line,” was the tone of protest heard from many applicants, as reported by Hall in the “New Purchase.” Local politicians, viewing the new school as something exclusive and aristocratic, declared that “it was a right smart chance better to have no college nohow, if all folks hadn’t equal right to larn what they most liked best.” Hall was the sole teacher employed for the first three years, and during this period the only branches taught were Greek and Latin.[32] While he thus filled all the offices of the seminary in the woods, he organized his handful of students into a literary society, which he called the _Henodelphisterian_, and for which he made the rule that members should drop their proper appellations while in the academic shades and assume Greek or Latin names. “Thus,” says Judge Banta, in his reminiscences, “every member of the society was an Ajax, a Pericles, a Timoleon.” Hall’s salary at this time was two hundred and fifty dollars a year, and there is ground for the suspicion that he compensated himself for deficiencies of income by the free indulgence of his sense of humor. As the young gentlemen of the _Henodelphisterian_ were occupied out of school hours in wood-chopping and swine-herding, the joke was rather broad. Additional instruction was demanded in the third year, and a teacher of mathematics was employed. The seminary became the State University in 1838, and among the first trustees were David Wallace, Governor William Hendricks, Jesse L. Holman, Robert Dale Owen, and Richard W. Thompson, all of whom were otherwise factors in the early history of the State, and in several cases members of families distinguished in subsequent generations. The University’s influence in the State has been inestimable. It has usually been fortunate in its administrators, and it has more and more grown to be the centre of agencies related to the better life and advancement of the commonwealth. After leaving Indiana, in 1831, Hall taught academies at Bordentown and Trenton, New Jersey, at Poughkeepsie and Newburgh, New York, and in 1852 he became principal of Park Institute, Brooklyn. He received the degree of A.M. from Princeton and of D.D. from Rutgers College.