Ramsey County History – Spring 1971: “The Letters of Samuel Pond, Jr.—Exams: ‘The Terror of the Students’”

The Letters of Samuel Pond, Jr.—Exams: ‘The Terror of the Students’

Samuel Pond Jr., attended the University of Minnesota in the 1870s and wrote many letters to his family. Those excerpted here were written in 1870. They deal with school matters, college activities, lectures and sermons, and Pond’s cross-country walks. Pond was often witty. “Greek adjectives … are of a great deal more importance [than war in Europe] if we stuff our minds with rules for the subjunctive we can not fail of becoming great men.”
PDF of Pond letters