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Excerpt from More Old Houses in Westborough, and Vicinity: With Their Occupants
When he went to college in 1789. He was in his 24th year and his direct con nection with the place of his birth ceases, but the same old building stood here during those three years of New Haven life, when he astonished the staid old professors with his marvelous skill in mechanical matters. Even then there were those who thought Eli Whit ney was burying his talents when he entered college, one critic saying, Too bad to lose so much mechanical genius and, when he was permitted to repair and to restore to usefulness the long unused orrery of Yale, the carpenter from whom he had borrowed some tools said, A. Good mechanic was lost when you entered college. The old house didn't know it, but all these four years, the Yale College student was adding to the fame of his birthplace. The distance was too great for him to visit his old home, besides he was long past his majority when he received his diploma and he was ready to accept the first opportunity that offered for lifelong employment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
