The work was hard, as much of the time was spent in wild areas that required him to camp; hunting and cooking his own food.

[1] Initially his family tried to dissuade him, as they felt that, with his adventurous spirit, he would soon be bored with life as a teacher.

[4] Hall entered Gallaudet's Normal School, graduating with an MA in deaf education in 1893.

Following his graduation, he taught at the New York School for the Deaf for two years before teaching mathematics and Latin at Gallaudet.

In June 1900, he married Ethel Zoe Taylor, who had been a deaf student at Gallaudet, shortly after she earned her BA.