Category: Biographies

Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education

_Thropper’s Puff Tie. Sounds That Passed in the Night. The Possible Advantages of Speaking Tubes. The Scroll of Divine History. The Meditations of a Saint. How Thropper Lost his Pious Reputation_ 36

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I PAGE

2. CHAPTER II

3. CHAPTER III

_Thropper’s Puff Tie. Sounds That Passed in the Night. The Possible Advantages of Speaking Tubes. The Scroll of Divine History. The Meditations of a Saint. How Thropper Lost his...

4. CHAPTER IV

_Thundering Gymnastics. How to Keep on the Good Side of the Young Women with Scriptural Quotations. The Establishment of Friendship. Carrying Water for Beauty. How Music may be...

5. CHAPTER V

_Pungo Hall’s Occupants: Estes Who Planned to Take a Tent and Plant it in the Midst of The World’s Sin; of The Little Man Who Fled from the Chidings of a ‘D.D.’: of Calloused Ha...

6. CHAPTER VI

_A Financial Pessimism Taken in Hand by Thropper and Shown in its Real Light. A Turkish Rug that Smoked. A Poet in Search of Kerosene. The Wonderful Antics of an Ironing-Board....

7. CHAPTER VII

_An Academic Ride in Five Carriages at Once. A Business Appeal Mixed in with the Order of Creation. How We Got Lost in a Discussion. Whether it is Best for a Man to Marry his Fi...

8. CHAPTER VIII

_The Doctrinal Temper of the University, and Thropper’s Talk about it. Introduces the Select Board of the Pharisees. A Prayer-meeting Monopoly Combated by Independants. Jason on...

9. CHAPTER IX

_My Trip into the Magic World of the Past. How Appreciation is sometimes Worth More than Money. Jason and his Coterie on Scent of Terrible Heresies. How God Takes Care of His Or...

10. CHAPTER X

_The Magnitude of a Postage Stamp. Showing how Desperate the Thirst for Money made me. Brock’s Rosy Nose and its Possibilities as a Fireplace. How Brock thought he was Fooling m...

11. CHAPTER XI

_How I Competed with Patrick Henry and was made Aware of a Waste of the Eighth Letter of the Alphabet. How I Condensed all my Studies into an Oration. How the Populace Greeted m...

12. CHAPTER XII

_The Personnel of “The Clamorous Eight” and other Social Matters. The “Blepoes” and The “Boulomaies” Invite me into Fellowship with a Protest from Jason. Epics and Lyrics of Lov...

13. CHAPTER XIII

_How One Dollar and a Half Secured “The Devil in Society.” The Medicine Chest which Became a Tract Depository under the Teachings of a New Creed. How I Stuck to Orthodoxy_ 135

14. CHAPTER XIV

15. CHAPTER XV

_A Ph.D. in a Clay Ditch and the Futility of it. A Can of Beans at the Conclusion of a Morbid Meditation. How Thropper and I Played David and Jonathan_ 145

16. CHAPTER XVI

17. CHAPTER XVII

_My Presidential Pose and its Central Place in “The Record.” A Wistful Glance and Some Practical Plans towards Eastern Education. How the Little Sparrow Brought my Class Colors...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

19. CHAPTER XIX

20. CHAPTER XX

21. CHAPTER XXI

22. CHAPTER XXII

23. CHAPTER XXIII

24. CHAPTER XXIV

25. CHAPTER XXV

26. CHAPTER XXVI

27. CHAPTER XXVIII

28. CHAPTER XXIX

29. CHAPTER XXX

30. CHAPTER XXXI

31. CHAPTER XXXII

32. CHAPTER XXXIII

_Of a Village where Locomotive Whistles Sounded like Lingering Music: of the Esthetic Possibilities in a College Catalogue: of a Journey over the Hills to the College where we f...

33. CHAPTER XXXIV

_My Wife Packs me off to College. The Senior and I Stop at a Rock for a Drink, Meet the Advance Guard of Students, Plunge into a Bedlam, and Witness the Labors of the Freshmen....

34. CHAPTER XXXV

35. CHAPTER XXXVI

36. CHAPTER XXXVII

37. CHAPTER XXXVIII

38. CHAPTER XXXIX

39. CHAPTER XL

It was like taking off an old, worn, unadorning suit of clothes as the Boston Express whirled me away from the City of Mills. It hummed with me over the streets on which I had w...

40. did. One of the most perfect scholars in the college and yet even the

grafters among the students would throw their caps in the air at any time for the Professor, and why is it? It is because his scholarship has actually made him accomplish someth...