CHAPTER V
MY COLLEGE DAYS
Before entering Yale, I had not solved the
problem of how I was to be carried through the
collegiate course without financial backing of a
definite and well-assured character. It was an
easy matter to talk about getting an education
by working for it, and there is a kind of romance
in it that captivates the imagination, but it is
altogether a different thing to face it in a business
and practical way. So it proved to me,
after I had put my foot into it. I had no one
except Brown, who had already done so much
for me in bringing me to this country, and
Hammond, who fitted me for college. To them
I appealed for advice and counsel. I was
advised to avail myself of the contingent fund
provided for indigent students. It was in the
hands of the trustees of the academy and so
well guarded that it could not be appropriated
without the recipient's signing a written pledge
that he would study for the ministry and afterwards
become a missionary. Such being the
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