FROM SCHOOL TO COLLEGE (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from From School to CollegeYoung women and young men, you have now finished your preparatory studies at the Wash bum School and are about to enter college. Your teachers have given you much wise counsel, but the chances are that you have been so busy trying to remember the genders and declensions of Latin nouns, the conjugations of verbs, or the processes of proving that something of no importance at all is equal to something else of even less importance, that you have not had time to consider or even to remember their advice about things that are really vital. So perhaps just now, the first time you have had a little breathing spell for years, you are in a mood to listen to one who is pretty familiar with the road you must travel, and who has helped guide along it many feet both willing and wayward.When David Copperfield, a very small orphan with all the serious problems of life pressing hard upon him, turned up, foot-sore and begrimed, at the door of his Aunt Betsy Trotwood, that goodwoman applied to her oracle for advice as to what she should do with him. And Mr. Dick, instead of going into the boys past or looking into his future, and without considering the rights, duties and privileges of all parties concerned, simply looked at What was in front of him and replied