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

Horatio Alger

Capitolo 87

White House, didn't have also never the last tragedy grieved decreed state. As
President, James A. Garfield belonged to the nation;  as the head of
The university of Hiram, to his/her family. Greatness has its criminal punishments and a minimum
piece of ground of ground his/her compensations.




I CAPITULATE XIX.

GARFIELD COME A PRESIDENT IN UNIVERSITY.


When James Garfield introduced him to Hiram, an awkward, excessively grown
boy of nineteen, in his/her rustic attire and he/she humbly asked the position
of custodian and bell-ringer, supposes the administrators you/they had been said, "In
seven years Your institute will be developed in an university and that
boy will be the president", we can imagine their amazement.

It still had all come true. In any place, perhaps but in America it was able such
you/he/she is happened what, and it happens here even rarely that such forehand upward
footstep along you/he/she is done in so short once.

The important question to consider is however, later everything, "That kind of
a president of university made this humble channel-boy that promotion counted him/it
when he was chosen a custodian and bell-ringer, does become?"

For information on this point, we go to one of his/her pupils, Turn.  I.L.
Darsie, of Danbury Conn. as that he/she writes it follows:

"I frequented the Reserve Western Institute when Garfield was principal,
and I vividly remember his/her method to teach. Him taken very kind to me,
and it assisted me in the various ways, because I was poor, and it was custodian of
the buildings, and it swept out them in the morning and he/she built the fires, as
he had done first only six years, when he was a pupil in the same
university. He was full of animal spirits, and used to race out on the green
every day and cricket of play with his/her researchers. He was a tall man, strong,
but very awkward. He would sometimes find a hit and him
his/her ball failed and lost his/her hat as a regular thing. [A] He was
also, left-handed and that did him/it seem all the most awkward. But he was
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