The distance of time (now forty years) since those Academy days does
not dim the fond recollection and appreciation of my teachers at St.
Johnsbury Academy. And of them all, before or since, there is no one who
holds a higher place in my esteem than Mr. Putney. Though engaged in
teaching mathematics and astronomy during the greater part of this time,
I have not forgotten, nor ever shall, the essentials he taught--some
things even in Latin and Greek, but far more in earnestness and sincerity
and purpose. And I prize also the closer touch with his sensitive,
kindly, sterling personality afforded by the few months when I was
privileged to teach as a substitute at the Academy.
Would that we had more such men now in the ranks of the profession.