Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education
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_An Academic Ride in Five Carriages at Once. A Business Appeal
Mixed in with the Order of Creation. How We Got Lost in a
Discussion. Whether it is Best for a Man to Marry his First
Love. A Sleuth-Dean. A Queen’s Birthday Supper with an
Athletic Conclusion. Jerry Birch Stands up for Albion. How
we Tamed him_ 80
CHAPTER VIII
_The Doctrinal Temper of the University, and Thropper’s Talk
about it. Introduces the Select Board of the Pharisees. A
Prayer-meeting Monopoly Combated by Independants. Jason
on my Track and How it Came out_ 89
CHAPTER IX
_My Trip into the Magic World of the Past. How Appreciation is
sometimes Worth More than Money. Jason and his Coterie on
Scent of Terrible Heresies. How God Takes Care of His Orators.
How a Big Soul can go through Annoyances_ 102
CHAPTER X
_The Magnitude of a Postage Stamp. Showing how Desperate the
Thirst for Money made me. Brock’s Rosy Nose and its
Possibilities as a Fireplace. How Brock thought he was
Fooling me and the Other Way About. The Barrow that Became
our Enemy and how Brock Revenged himself on it_ 109
CHAPTER XI
_How I Competed with Patrick Henry and was made Aware of a
Waste of the Eighth Letter of the Alphabet. How I Condensed
all my Studies into an Oration. How the Populace Greeted
my Rehearsal. Striking the Top Pitch_ 119
CHAPTER XII
_The Personnel of “The Clamorous Eight” and other Social
Matters. The “Blepoes” and The “Boulomaies” Invite me into
Fellowship with a Protest from Jason. Epics and Lyrics of
Love. “Pa” Borden Speaks for the Benedicts on a Momentous
Matter. How the Magic Tree Lured Some Unfaithful Ones from
their Sworn Duty_ 126
CHAPTER XIII
_How One Dollar and a Half Secured “The Devil in Society.”
The Medicine Chest which Became a Tract Depository under the
Teachings of a New Creed. How I Stuck to Orthodoxy_ 135
CHAPTER XIV
_A Chapter Depicting how Strife Existed Between the
Pro-Gymnasiums and the Anti-Gymnasiums and Showing how
baseball, Debates and an Epidemic Determined Matters This Way
and That_ 140
CHAPTER XV
_A Ph.D. in a Clay Ditch and the Futility of it. A Can of Beans
at the Conclusion of a Morbid Meditation. How Thropper and
I Played David and Jonathan_ 145
CHAPTER XVI
_Visions, Hysteria, Dogma, and Poor Lessons to the Front when
the Revivalists Arrived. How Natural it Sounded when
“Bird” Thurlow Asked a Flippant Question_ 151
CHAPTER XVII