Capitolo 90
When he returned as principal, its promptness was striking and
extraordinary."
It says Henry James: "Garfield taught me more than some other man, while living
or dead, and, proud as me they are of his/her record as a soldier and a man of state,
I cannot forgive him/it really to abandon the academy and the hole."
Then President Hinsdale, one of the pupils of Garfield and his/her successor as
president, testifies: The "my true knowledge with Garfield didn't start
you cultivate the autumn of 1856, when he returned from the university of Williams. Him then
find out me, it attracted next to me, and it entered all of my troubles and
difficulty that pertains to questions of the future. In a greater or less
degree this was generally true of his/her relationships to his/her pupils. There is
in hundreds of these men and women it sprinkled on the to-day of world that is able
you don't find strong language enough to express their feeling in
Garfield that contemplates as their old instructor, advisor and friend.
"From 1856 my relationships with him are as closing and reserved as
they could be with some man, and very nearbyer and more reserved than
they has been with some other man. I don't say me that it would be
possible for me not to know anybody best that I know him/it, and I know that
he possesses all the great elements of character in an extraordinary
degree. Its interest in humanity has always been wide as the humanity
it, while his/her vivacious interest in the young men and women, especially if
they was fighting in narrow circumstances to get an education, it is
a characteristic known as widely on the world as the footsteps of
The boys of Hiram and girls have wandered.
"The help that he furnished in hundreds in the way of suggestions,
teaching, encouragement, inspiration, and the stimulus they were very precious.
His/her power on students they were not to the point that of a drill-master, or
you discipline, as that of one who was able to inhale and to stimulate
young people from his/her his/her own intellectual and moral strength."