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    Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College
    Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College
    Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College
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    Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College

    By Charles Franklin Thwing

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College - Charles Franklin Thwing

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      College, by Charles Franklin Thwing

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      Title: Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College

      Author: Charles Franklin Thwing

      Release Date: June 13, 2010 [EBook #32803]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

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      LETTERS FROM A

      FATHER TO HIS SON

      ENTERING COLLEGE

      BY

      CHARLES FRANKLIN THWING

      President of Western Reserve University

      New York

      THE PLATT & PECK CO.

      Copyright, 1912

      By THE PLATT & PECK CO.

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      Parts of the letters that make up this little book were read to my own college boys at the opening of a college year. They represent somewhat, but of course only a bit, of what I believe many a father would like to say to his own son,—as I to mine,—when he is entering the most important year of his college life—the Freshman. Those who first heard them,—even though obliged to hear,—seemed to suffer them gladly. They are, therefore, brought together, and sent out to fathers and to sons, and with a peculiar feeling of sympathy for both the parent and the boy at one of the crises of the life of each.

      C. F. T.

      Western Reserve University,

          Cleveland.

      CONTENTS

      LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO HIS SON ENTERING COLLEGE

      My Dear Boy:—I am glad you want to go to college. Possibly I might send you even if you did not want to go, yet I doubt it. One may send a boy through college and the boy is sent through. None of the college is sent through him. But if you go, I am sure a good deal of the college will somehow get lodged in you.

      You will find a thousand and one things in college which are worth while. I wish you could have each of them, but you can not. You have to use the elective system, even in the Freshman year. The trouble is not that so few boys do not seem to know how to distinguish the good from the bad, but that so many boys do not know the better from the good and the best from the better. I have known thousands of college boys, and they do not seem to distinguish, or, if they do, they do not seem to be able to apply the gospel of difference.

      You won't think me imposing on you—will you?—if before entering college I tell you of some things which seem to me to be most worthy of your having and being on the day you get your A. B.

      The first thing I wish to say to you is that I want you to come out of the college a thinker. But how to make yourself a thinker is both hard to do and hard to tell. Yet, the one great way of

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