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Title: Record of the class of eighteen hundred and seventy-six of Princeton university
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Princeton university. Class of 1876 Harrison, Henry Lewis, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: (New York, The Grafton press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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cted,any time during the past five years, to my marryingagain. Of course, I understand that you wantthings to fill up the Record, but I know that she isnot loyal enough to 76 even to make an effort tochange things as they are. We are pretty conservative down here in Louis-iana, and that may account for the fact that wehave stubbornly resisted all inducements to alterthe names, or even the dates of birth, of our chil-dren. They remain exactly as they have been re-ported : Gertrude, Philip and John. Philip is at school not far from Princeton, andhas the Princeton fever, although he is normally fit-ted for the navy. He may tread those historicAvalks in a year or so—I only hope not in his fathersfootsteps. There is an improvement in the English prepar-ation of our secondary schools, but there is room formore. I am old-fashioned enough to think thatEnglish is the most important of all studies for ourboys and girls. Observations on life after twenty-five years?Well, its a large order. 156
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Most of-us have probably gotten what we de-served. Many of us more. I am among the latterclass, and I am profoundly grateful that, in spite ofso much of my own effort to the contrary, my lineshave fallen in pleasant places. I am more and moreconvinced that the boy is father to the man; thatthe studies, the tastes, the natural inclinations ofa lad should be more attended to both by parentsand teachers than they used to be, at all events. Iknow that the things I have done best in life arethe things I had a taste for at college. The use ofthe elective system in its broadest application in myday would have been of inestimable benefit to me.I hope it will grow. I mean that my own boysshall go nowhere to college where they will nothave the largest opportunity to develop the thingthat is in them to do and to be. I wish I could go to the supper, but I cant. Myholiday is so long Anyway that I try not to shave itoff too often. Give my love to the boys. I see them so seldom.One day, two or three

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