Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Republican Leaders: Biographical Sketches of James a Garfield, Republican Candidate for President, and Chester An; Arthur, Republican Candidate for Vice-President
Returning to Ohio from college, young Garfield went back to the school at Hiram, and was given the professorship of Latin and Greek, and the next year, when only twenty-six years old, he was made President of the Institute. There probabl y never was a younger college president. He carried into his new posi tion the remarkable energy and vigor and good sense which are the main springs of his character. He soon increased the attend ance at the school, raised its standard of scholarship, strength ened its faculty, and inspired everybody connected with it with something of his own zeal and enthusiasm. At the same time he studied law and was an omnivorous reader of general litera ture.
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