David McDonogh to Walter Lowrie

Title: David McDonogh to Walter Lowrie
Description: All the bills have been paid with the money David has taken up for the chronicles and Missionary Papers.

"The more a person studies, the more his ignorance becomes visible. At the latter part of last month Prof. McCartney gave us a lecture or two on Civil Engineering. And when he had enumerated several of the particulars that come under that head. I felt, really, angry. Thinking that I had completed the whole college course of Mathematics and was ignorant of one of the most important and useful Branches of that great Science."

"Our commencement was pretty good. But not compared to the one before it. The Junior Exhibition was also good. But I think it would have been better had I taken a part in it. I think it was really mean in Dr. Yeomans for depriving me of that privilege."

"On the evening of the Commencement our horses ran away with the Mason and the driver was sorely bruised. Dr. Abernethy officiated in the presence of three of his students."

David bled another patient and he is recovering very fast.

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Original letter at the PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Philadelphia)
Identifier: 90
Date: 1843-09-25 00:00:00
Subject: David is frustrated that he is ignorant of some of the details of engineering. He is also upset with Dr. Yeomans for forbidding him to participate in the Junior Exhibition.
Creator: David
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