_My Presidential Pose and its Central Place in “The Record.” A Wistful Glance and Some Practical Plans towards Eastern Education. How the Little Sparrow Brought my Class Colors as I Gave the Class “Oration.” Ends in a Fight_ 157 CHAPTER XVIII _Thropper Unfolds Something Better than Canned Foods. A Lesson with the Flat Iron. Thropper Proposes that I Chaperone Horses_ 162 CHAPTER XIX _A Chapter Which Has to do with a Series of Exciting Affairs that Occurred between the West and the East, and Which are Better to Read about than to Endure_ 171 CHAPTER XX _My Aunt Millie’s Interpretation of Education. The Right Sort of an Adviser Gets Hold of me_ 188 CHAPTER XXI _Over the Sea to a New Educational Chance. How I Revenged Myself on the Hungry Days. The Cloistered Serenity of the New Place_ 197 CHAPTER XXII _Stoves with Traditions, Domestic Habits, and Greek, “Boys Will be Boys”_ 204 CHAPTER XXIII _A Plot Which had for its End the Raising up of a Discouraged, Young Preacher_ 208 CHAPTER XXIV _Burner, a Searcher After Truth. How a May-Pole Subdued a Tribe of Little Savages_ 219 CHAPTER XXV _At the Heart of Human Nature. A Confidential Walk with a Dollar Bill at the End of it. A Philosophical Observation from the Stage-Driver_ 226 CHAPTER XXVI _The Strange Adventure of Burner into Nothing, and How my Own Mind Got into Trouble, and How my Faith was Strengthened under the Chapel Window_ 235 CHAPTER XXVII _The Wonderful Summer on the Pleasure Island_ 243 CHAPTER XXVIII _How a Parsonage Suggests a Wife. The Convincing Revelations of a Phrenologist Who Examined The Students’ Bumps_ 248 CHAPTER XXIX _It Devolves upon me to Entertain a Guest. The Sentimental Consequences Which Ensued_ 256 CHAPTER XXX _A Heretic Hunter. The Orthodoxy of the Seminary Admirably Defended. I Contract a Fashionable Disease, and also Receive a Very Unsettling Letter_ 263 CHAPTER XXXI _How Some of the Joys of Friendship Came to me in the Tower Room. The Orator in the White Vest. How Soon I Lost my Diploma_ 269 CHAPTER XXXII