The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-09-09
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BY AN owossoAS.
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BY AN owossoAS.
ttA,lA CHAPTER v.
The years Of college life when look
ed at afar, seem long and wasteful.
Many young man as he has been
about to enter upon them, has turned
aside, never to return. He sees the
majority of his mates engaging in
some business. which brings in money
and competence, and enables them to
marry, and he is sometimes led to
think that little learning will scarce
ly compensate him in the SHORTAGE of
life, for so prosperous start in thc
journey. All, how mistaken he is !
The meanest student in college is
a High Priest of wisdom, in the crowd
of hucksters and farmers and me-
chanics. If he has not studied book
in the whole curriculum, he has some
how imbibed veneration for phil
osophy, which leads him so well in
the mazes of life that he is scarcely
ever at fault.
Henry Yost, however, was not
tempted beyond what he could bear.
Something tided him over the shall
lows where the Kingdoms of this
world and the glory of them" lie so
near the surface that men are stuck
in the sands, and never get away.
The matter of expense too, which has
something to do IN frightening many
bright young men from the ways Of
scholarship, had but very little inhu-
ence on Henry; and the more so. be-
cause in his day in New England, it
was possible for men Of very meagre
incomes, to educate their children.
The pocket is, to large extent, a
matter Of the mind.
Young Yost never even called q
shalt" when he reached the TIRES
hold of the college life. 1t will not
perhaps be very interesting to give an
account Of the years passed there
His course" was as might have been
expected, a successful one.
| 1t is quite natural for towns thai
are represented by boys in the higher
walks of learning, to make a grea
deal of them. 1t was so in Henry.
case. AT vacations he was invited tc
deliver temperance addresses, ant
make little impromptu speeches Gal
ways Of course written beforehand.
on almost every occasion. Strange
to say, he almost always declined
Some thought him eccentric, anC
Some voted him crazed with books
It may not perhaps be evidence Of ir
sanity, that young collegian should
refuse to display his powers on home
platform, but it is strikingly anoma
lous. If there is one thing the aver
age recent graduate responds to, it il
: the call to "make speech" by some
of the magnates of his little town
who all regard him as remarkable
, person. He "accepts" with alacrit,
wears rosette in his button-hole
and invariably talks about the objec
, tive, and the subjective, and the cog
, nate. The audience who know abou
!, as much ofthe words he uses as thu
, fish-woman did Of the geometrica
!, terms of Daniel O'Connell, vote hin
. genius And yet he is not. Tel
chances to one he will, by and by
i, preach in ga little chapel partly fillet
7 with believers some humble
, school-turn out fourth rate lawyer
or become vagrant!
Now, we do not undertake to den
|, that Henry Yost was susceptible t
; the applause even of his own towns
= men, who always begin by being par
E tial and end in praise. But some
thing, we cannot tell what, deterre
him. Not even Myra, who seemed t
, be potent with him in other matter
= could influence him in this. He cam
and went without speeches. Some c
> the knowing ones in the town, hear
! now and then that he was regarde
!, by the faculty Of the institution, as
: young man of remarkable power l
= forensic and other public exercise
: and so the wonder at his silence, sti
a grew.
When the long expected con
mencement day, came, three or fou
! ofthe leading family went to atten
= the exercises. Among others, ofcour'
II Weston and Myra were there. Cal
= son and his girl had not yet returne
, from Europe. Undoubtedly if II
y Deacon had been at home, he wou|
y have gone to hear the Grafton Of Il
= son Of his faithful old tenant.
= 1t was Eoticed, and remembers
= tor long time afterward by tho'
who had the good fortune to be the
! at the closing exercises of the elias
: how unconcerned and absent, Hem
:. appeared. 1t is quite usual for your
" men to look a trife pale and agitatt
= at such an hour. His was by far Il
! ablest Grafton Of the day, but it WI
q delivered without feeling or spir
'e And yet not even his lifelessness az
y unconcern, could conceal his abilit
y There were men of culture there, wi
!. walked straight to him after he h;
~ done, and congratulated him. T
~ was handsome and so he got boque,
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