Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Adelphi Quarterly, Vol. 1: July, 1861
Colleges do a great deal of good in one thing, in that they lead a man to know himself.
Man, as a general thing, is less acquainted with himself than with his neighbors. But here, if the college does not lead him to know himself better than his fellows, it at least forces him to know himself almost as well. While it is apt to take down a man's respect for himself, it also takes down some and raises others in his estimate of them.
Before you get through college you begin to have a great respect for that chum of yours, who has plodded along where you have run. You did'nt have much respect for him at first, but he has illustrated to you so often the fable of the race between the hare and the tortoise, that you cannot help acknowledging that he is your superior in the long run.
Oftentimes he has bored his way through mathematical difficulties, and you have been very glad to get a glimpse of daylight through his Opening. Then, too, your professors are not half as great men as you thought them at first. You get so you talk and laugh' with them almost as familiarly as you would with your chum, and fail to descry any indi cations of greatness so obvious in your Freshman year. Se niors particularly, fall in your estimation, -especially when you get to be a Senior yourself. The fact is, a man through out his whole College course is but learning to get a right view of life. In his drawing of it before, he had everything wrong. His perspective was bad; his proportions were wrong; he made those characters too great, and these too small. He gave this part too deep a shade, and gave that too much light. He straightens all these out during his course, and before he gets through, gets a tolerably correct representation of life.
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