Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College

C. F. T.

Western Reserve University,
Cleveland.

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[I]	Thought	9
[II]	The Essential Gentleman	22
[III]	Health as an Asset	25
[IV]	Appreciation	29
[V]	Scholarship	31
[VI]	The Intellectual Life	40
[VII]	The Use of Time	43
[VIII]	Culture	53
[IX]	College Morals	61
[X]	Weakness of Character	65
[XI]	The Genesis of Success	68
[XII]	Religion	91

My Dear Boy:—I am glad you want to go to college. Possibly I might send you even if you did not want to go, yet I doubt it. One may send a boy through college and the boy is sent through. None of the college is sent through him. But if you go, I am sure a good deal of the college will somehow get lodged in you.

You will find a thousand and one things in college which are worth while. I wish you could have each of them, but you can not. You have to use the elective system, even in the Freshman year. The trouble is not that so few boys do not seem to know how to distinguish the good from the bad, but that so many boys do not know the better from the good and the best from the better. I have known thousands of college boys, and they do not seem to distinguish, or, if they do, they do not seem to be able to apply the gospel of difference.

You won't think me imposing on you—will you?—if before entering college I tell you of some things which seem to me to be most worthy of your having and being on the day you get your A. B.

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LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON ENTERING COLLEGE