Histoire de la classe de '70, Département de littérature, des sciences et des arts . perament. Bien qu'il est mort à l'âge de 40 ans, vigoureux qu'il manhooddeveloped fini une individualité qui a été impressionné sur thecomnumity il a quitté, et sa vie professionnelle, bien que courte,,si des croquis des dossiers de la cour de son état, quasiment remplir thealottcd vears score trois et dix d'autres hommes. Charles Manley Wells, M.S.Los Angeles, Californie L'événement le plus important dans la vie de C. M. Wells a eu lieu()ctobre 23d. 1842-il wasborn-GIBSON, S u s q ue h a n n aCounty, Pennsylvanie. Il être-gan vie, pas seulement ve

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History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . perament. Although he died at the age of forty, his vigorous manhooddeveloped a finished individuality which was impressed upon thecomnumity he left, and his professional life, though short, would, if sketched from the court records of his state, well-nigh fill thealottcd three score vears and ten of other men. Charles Manley Wells, M.S.Los Angeles, Cal. The most important event inthe life of C. M. Wells occurred()ctober 23d. 1842—he wasborn—Gibson, S u s q ue h a n n aCounty, Pennsylvania. He be-gan life, not only very yotmg, I)ut also very small, his chiefattributes at that time being-()ice and appetite. Hardlyworth raising. was the verdict..Still, in accordance with tlie cus-tom of liabies, he grew and wasgood and naughty, a blessingand a trial, as most children are.Until thirteen years of age, helived in the coal mining town of Wilkesbarre, Penn., where hisfather, Geo. H. Wells, practiced law. During these vears theboy had the advantages of a good, plain home, a devoutly Chris-. Department of Literature, Science, and Arts. 205 tian mother, a practical, free-thinking, upright father; and he re-ceived i)lenty of precepts and admonition, enforced hy the motherwith mild slaps and by the father with a severe rod. His primary schooling- was mostly obtained at home, taughtby his parents ; hence it was neither systematic nor thorough.His great bug-bear was the horrible, unprincipled, wicked spell-ing of the English language, lacking sense and reason and right;causing tears and heart burns innumerable; otherwise he tookhold well, without either precocity or dullness, and at thirteenstood, in patches, l)Oth l)eyond and behind the pupils of like agein the public schools. In 1855 tl^^ ^if^ o^ young Wells changed from town to coun-try—Wilkesbarre, Penn., to Gibson, Penn., since the father, be-cause of failing eyesight, was compelled to aljandon the practiceof law and become a farmer. This mean

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