It was a favorite spot for the rustication of naughty boys from Harvard or Yale.

Dr.Price had one or two at present who boarded in his house so as to be immediately under his purblind eyes, and who took Greek and Latin at the Academy.
Social feuds raged in the Academy coteries between the collegians and the natives on account of the superior success of the former in flirtation.

The latter were not consoled by their experience that no flirtation lasted beyond the period of rustication.

Dr.Price usually had several young men fitting for college also, which fact added more piquancy to the provincial society.

In the summer riding parties were fashionable, and in the winter county balls and cotillion parties; a professor came down from Boston at this season to set up a dancing school, which was always well attended.
The secular concerns of life engaged the greatest share of the interests of its inhabitants; and although there existed social and professional dissensions, there was little sectarian spirit among them and no religious zeal.