Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE MOUNING OF pOWER. life, as we have it in this country, is a romance. In the midst of an age in whose thought poetry has found little lodgment; in which love has become a matter of business, and literature a trade, the American college is the home of sentiment, of ideas and of letters. The old institutions of romance have crumbled into ruins. The armed knight, the amorous lady, the wandering minstrel, the mysterious monastery, the mediicval castle, with its ghosts and legends exist only in history. But behind academic walls there arc passages-at-arms as fierce, amours as sweet, songs as stirring, legends as wonderful, secrets as well transmitted to posterity as ever existed in the brain of Walter Scott. It was to such an enchanted life at Williams College, that Gar- field betook himself in the month of June, 1854. To go through college is like passing before a great number of photographic cameras of every size and kind, when the sensitive plate is prepared and the focus arranged. A man leaves an indelible picture of himself printed on the mind of each student with whom he comes in contact; so that the college life of a great man is an important part of his biography. When Garfield entered Williams, he was over six feet high, as awkward as he was muscular, and looking every inch a backwoodsman. He had made great progress, however, in his previous stud- - ies, and successfully passed his examination for the junior class. A young fellow, named Wilbur, a cripple, came with him from Ohio, and the couple from the first attracted much attention. A classmate writes: " Garfield's kindness to his lame chum was remarked by every body." But many of the college boys were the sons of rich men. The strapping young fellow from Ohio was, in his own language, a"greeny...
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