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Show 15 I can testify that in such encounters as the above one is made to appreciate power gained by collegiate training. With the mention of a little Sunday School class of boys and young men under my charge, and the recent beginning of a light course in Shakespeare under my supervising principal, I can bring this account to a fitting close. The present finds me without definite plans for more than the immediate future. I am, yours sincerely, ARTHUR B. GARDNER. Long Beach, Calif., Jan. 26, 1899. My Dear Classmates:- Things which seem misfortunes are sometimes blessings in disguise. So I hope it may prove in my case. I failed completely to get the work I most earnestly desired and instead of being a school-teacher this year, I am a book-keeper in a Loan office in Nashville, Tenn. I am consoled by the thought that a little business experience may be the best thing for me, and that some advantage comes to one in doing things that are disagreeable. In addition to my regular work, I have determined not to lose my interest in Political Science, and have purchased Hare's "American Constitutional Law," and am trying to become as familiar with it as possible. I am also doing some reading in American history. I have found much that is interesting in the new conditions of life by which I am surrounded, and I am convinced that it is not a small element in an education to live in a section of the country so diverse from one's native section, A northerner living in the South but a few |