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school, in the small towns around Williamstown, but was never so successful, in that scattered community, as to secure a very profitable number of scholars. He dressed very plainly and cheaply, and was compelled to economize, in every way,—in his board, his books, and in his traveling expenses, in order to make the small sum he had secured to last until his graduation. He was the humblest of them all. He was very poor, and was brave enough to frankly acknowledge it. There is no more striking proof of the fact, so little understood, that college life is but a small part of the discipline and learning necessary to a liberal education than is found in the history of college classes. How often do we find that the honored, brilliant, and influential students sink almost immediately out of sight when they leave the college halls and enter the breakers of actual life; while the silent, thoughtful one, whose presence in the class is scarcely remembered, comes conspicuously to the surface, in civil or military life, and soon towers above all his acquaintances and school-day associates. Sometimes, in the annals of scientific discovery, or of national leadership, the popular and brilliant college student is found. Once in a while the valedictorian is again heard of in the vanguard of civilization, with the great and the good. But the rarity of it is a curious and sad feature connected with students' lives. It may be that the honors they received led them to the fatal conclusion that at their graduation they knew all that men need to learn, and stopping, they were soon left behind and beneath

by the less successful candidates for class-day honors.

Garfield's student days appear to have impressed him as but a portion of a whole life of study, and he conducted himself as if his graduation was to make no break in his pursuit of knowledge. Beginning it as if for a long journey, on which it would be unwise, at first, to hurry, he left the college as one who has passed the first mile, and looks back upon his progress with satisfaction, and forward with unflinching determination. He does not appear to have been actuated by any desire for fame, neither had he any confidence in his ability to acquire riches. He purposed to do quiet, solid work, either as a preacher, lawyer or teacher, and pictured to himself a life of studious quiet and religious peace.

In his college days, his characteristic simplicity and truthfulness were noticed and commended. He was determined to appear to possess no more than his actual acquirements would warrant. If he did not understand his lesson, or for some reason was behind in his studies, he manfully said so without reserve. His teachers never over-estimated him; for his life was transparent, and his words bore the intangible but positive impress of truth. This noble trait of his character compelled him to make many sacrifices. If he neglected his study, there was no escape for him in manufactured excuses. If he was

inferior to other students in certain branches of the college studies, he could not make up for it with "ponies," stolen translations, or borrowed keys. If

he was late or absent at prayer-time, or at recitation, he could not feign sickness, nor evade the monitor's inquiries. Hence, he was forced, by his own rigid morality, to be thorough in his studies and obedient in his behavior. How much of human success and human greatness depends on the strictness and wisdom with which parents discipline and educate their children into that sublimest and most necessary of all acquirements, — invariable and unshaken adherence to the simple truth!

The two years of college life passed quickly with him, as they do with all, and the joyful day of graduation came to him as to thousands of others. But his joy was enhanced by the reflection that he should no longer be compelled to live on borrowed money. He is said to have longed, even at that early day, to be at work paying up his Uncle Thomas. With the success of his studies he must have been well satisfied. He had made solid progress. He had made many warm friends, especially among the faculty. He had secured the metaphysical honors of his class, and had the respect of all. Yet, to enable him to acquire this, he had drawn upon the future, and he longed to be at work. How the desire to see his mother, and that other lady at Hiram, may have influenced his joy on his graduation day, the historian at present can only surmise.

The class-mates of Mr. Garfield are now scattered through the different States of the Union, and are nearly all of that steady, sturdy character for which he was remarkable. William Rowe Baxter was a

captain in the regular service, and was killed in Mississippi, June 1864; Stephen W. Bowles is a physician in Springfield, Massachusetts; Isaac Bronson is a lawyer in New York; Elijah Cutler is a minister, and agent of the Bible Society, Boston, Mass.; Hamilton N. Eldridge is a lawyer in Chicago, and was brevetted a brigadier-general in the war of the rebellion; James E. Fay is a lawyer in Chicago; James Gillfillan is a lawyer, and was for a time in the government service, at Washington; Charles S. Halsey lives at Canandaigua, New York; James K. Hazen, was a Presbyterian minister in Alabama; Clement H. Hill is a lawyer, and clerk of the United States Court, in Boston, Massachusetts; Silas P. Hubbell is a lawyer at Champlain, New York; Ferris Jacobs is a lawyer at Delhi, New York, and was a colonel in the war; Henry M. Jones is a Baptist minister; Henry E. Knox is a lawyer in New York; John E. D. Lamberton died in 1857; Charles W. McArthur is a Presbyterian minister; Elizur N. Manley is a Presbyterian minister at Oakfield, New York; James McLean is a Congregational minister in Wisconsin; Robert J. Mitchell is a lawyer in New York; George B. Newcomb is a Congregational minister in Connecticut; Joseph F. Noble is a Presbyterian minister at Brooklyn, New York; John T. Pingree is a lawyer at Auburn, New York; Andrew Potter is a lawyer at Bennington, and was a colonel during the war; Arnold G. Potter is a lawyer at North Adams, Massachusetts; Edwin H. Pound is a lawyer in Iowa; Nathan B. Robbins was a lawyer, and was drowned in 1859; Albion T. Rocwkell is a phy

sician in Washington, and has long been in the government service; he was a lieutenant-colonel in the last war; Lester C. Rogers is a minister of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Jersey; Henry Root is a physician at Whitehall, New York; Frank Shepard is a teacher in Connecticut; Oren C. Sikes is a teacher at Lynn, Massachusetts; Edward C. Smith is a teacher in Philadelphia; John T. Stoneman is a lawyer in Iowa; John Tatlock is a Congregational minister at Troy, New York; Lemuel P. Webber is a Presbyterian minister; Charles Whittier is a Congregational minister in Maine; Charles D. Wilbur is a Professor of Geology in Illinois; John H. Wilhelm is a Baptist minister; Samuel Williams is a lawyer at St. Albans, Vermont, and Lavalette Wilson is a teacher in New York State.