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life. I am J g n o trouble appropriate to 1ny condition. I test the efhcacy of nearly every accepted mode of discipline and now and then make necessary the invention of a few new ones to suit my special case. Soberness and serious thought gradually gain more and more control over my actions, and I approach my graduating year perhaps with some vague sense of the fact that manhood is near and that life will soon face me with its hard de- mands. I have received much while I have been a Miller boy, and my Alma Mater has indeed shown me the love and kindness of a true parent, and now the time has come for me to pay back her gifts by leading before the world a life of usefulness and honor. May I indeed show to the world that it is she who has made me what I am! a boy and therefore get into the amou t f 39 lui.. I
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with the labors of the farm, the stable, the boiler-room, and all departments of work about the place. But, after all, my hours of pleasure leave more lasting impression than those of toil. The schoolroom and the work are soon forgotten at night, and I fall asleep dreaming of a secluded spot in the autumn woods, known only to myself and a few choice comrades, where chestnuts of the fattest and sweetest kind may be shaken out after a nightls keen frost. VVhile I gaze upon my books my mind may be wandering out to the smooth white hillside with its glittering track of snow, and when at last I am there, my sled and I become the only beings of im- portance in the world. Spring comes round with its tempting invitation to spend the day in outdoor sports, and thus the days draw near when, for a few months, we leave this country home to exchange it for another or perhaps the life of a town. Thus I live on as a primary,,looking ahead to the day when I shall be advanced to the dignity of residence in the main building. My history in the primary grades, if given in detail, would not be worth the labor I might take to chronicle its events, nor would it pay you for the time spent in reading of its trivial occurrences. Finally the last year of degraded condition as a primary passes by, and I attain the long-covered position of a house boyf' My training now becomes more varied. It is twofold in its character. In part it is that of the regular preparatory schools of this State and others, and the subjects I study differ in no way from those pur- sued by other boys of my age. But a very large part of my training now differs widely from that of boys in other schools. Fully half of my day is spent in the manual training department, where I am now a carpenter, now a blacksmith, now a foundryman, now a machinist. I become practiced in handling tools of every craft, and thus until the hour of recreation my afternoon is spent amid the whir of machinery and the noise of hammer and saw. This training is varied with periods of experimental work in the Chemical and Physical Laboratories and care- ful and painstaking practice in the art of drawing. The hour and a half of recrea- tion before supper comes none to soon, and when that meal is over, and I march to the study-hall, I often find that sleep is likely to weigh mine eyelids down in slumbers of forgetfulnessi' before my tasks for the evening are done. Qften before the hum of the dormitories has ceased I am far away in the blissful land of slumber, and I find it hard to break away from 1ny wanderings in that happy region when the harsh sound of the six o'clock bell announces that another day has begun. ' ' This, in brief, is the history of my days. Qccasional variety comes on a holi- day or an evening of entertainment and recreation. A football or a baseball con- test introduces from time to time excitement into the calm and regular round of school occupation. All the while I am leading a happy, careless and uneventful 38
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