From Canal Boy to President - Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 77

introduces him/it with an elegant volume of poems."




I CAPITULATE XVII.

THE LIFE IN UNIVERSITY.


Probably young Garfield never passed two happier or more profitable
years that to the university of Williams. The Seminars until that he had frequented here
it was respectable, but in the nature of their things you/they could not afford the
installations that him it now enjoyed. Despite his/her years of study and struggle
there were a lot of things of which it missed him. He had studied
Latin, Greek, and the mathematics but of the literature English he knew but
little. He had never had time to read for recreation, or for that taller
culture that won't be learned in the class-room.

In the library of the university of Williams he made his/her first knowledge with
Shakespeare, and we can understand that that a revelation that its jobs have to have
is to the youth aspirator. He had abstained from the light ones the fiction,
doubting if it were profitable, since the first days when with a
enthusiasms of excitement of boy he read "Sinbad the Sailor" and Marryatt
novels. After some his/her sights how to the utility of the changed fiction. Him
it founded that his/her mind you/he/she was suffering the solid food to which it was
limited, and he started to make raids in the kingdom of poetry and
the fiction with excellent results. He limited some kind to usually read,
and it didn't neglect for the charm of novel those more solid
you work that should form the brace of a youth you/they are reading.

You knows well that among poets Tennyson it was his/her favorite, so that in
after years, when to the notice of fifteen minutes, on the first anniversary
of the murder of Lincoln, he had called above for transporting an updating of
the House as a mark than in comparison to the President martyred him it was able
from memory to quota in his/her brief discourse, as applicable to Lincoln, the
the description of poet of some

  "Man divinely given,
  Of who life in piece of ground of low ground it started,
  And on a simple green of village,
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