The Farmer Boy Who Became a Bishop; The Autobiography of the Right Reverend Anson Rogers Graves (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sacrificed a great deal in letting me go off to school before I was of age, I felt I must yield to their wishes. My parents were aged, and for the first time in their life had secured a home of their own. My brother Daniel was working very hard to meet the payments. Had I enlisted, the one hundred dollar bounty was to go toward paying for their home, and twenty dollars a month, which Vermont soldiers received, was to be saved up to help me through college. The forbidding prospects of my being able to work my way through college with so little money in sight may have had something to do with my desire to enlist. After paying my fare to the college at Geneva, New York, and buying a few necessaries, I had only twenty-eight dollars with no one in the world to help me to the value of a cent. Nevertheless, I bravely bid farewell to my second home, not without many tears, and took the train for my college town. CHAPTER VII. FRESHMAN YEAR IN COLLEGE. ON arriving in Geneva, New York, I was greatly impressed with the beauty of the place. The college buildings overlooked Seneca Lake, and there were many beautiful homes with terraced gardens onthe lake shore between the college and the business part of the town. The view stretched away across the lake to the hills, open fields and verdant groves beyond. Rev. Dr. Metcalf, professor of Latin, examined me in Latin and Greek, and very kindly let me through with my many deficiencies. I also passed in mathematics. I later found that I had the poorest preparation of any in our class except one boy, and he was conditioned and left college at the end of the first term. It took the very hardest study for me to keep up with my class, but I passed all my examinations at the end of the term and was duly matriculated. Dr. Metcalf helped me t...