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5. Home advantages — Chief drawbacks — Farm 

 work — Love of sheep — Hoofrot in sheep — 

 Caustic remedies — PeddHng sheep — Clearing 

 swamps — Boiling sap — Apple culture — - Far- 

 sighted eyes — Memory — Eager but patient 



6. Religion — Personal morals' — Counts against 

 tobacco — Attitude toward alcohol — Cards — 

 "A prayer gauge" — Religion and hysteria — 

 Camp meetings 



Chapter Three 5 1 



1. Winning a Cornell scholarship — Paying one's 

 way — "The Grove" and "the Strug" — Ros- 

 well Leavitt — The "Soiree litteraire" — "The 

 young Heroy" — A poet-botanist — Copeland 



2. "Brothers in Delta U" — The Comstocks — 

 Branner and the others — Anderson and Brayton 



3. College fraternities — Studenten-Corps — Phi 

 Beta Kappa — Sigma Xi — Special features — 

 The Chapter House — Downward tendencies — ■ 

 Fraternity standards — Wasted energy 



4. The mock program — Wholesome discipline — 

 A student prank — E. L. R. Moses — A political 

 sphinx — Three women pioneers — Lack of 

 social amenities — The Mitchell sisters — Era 

 poetasters — The Minnie-song 



5. A birthday party on April i — Music a closed 

 book — Favorite poets — "Lyrics of Life" — 

 The critic relents — The "Boston Hymn" — 

 Bret Harte — Thoreau — Andersen's tales — 

 Beauties of nature 



6. Prize in Entomology — Prize in History — 

 Custom abandoned 



Chapter Four 77 



1. Andrew D. White as university president — Ezra 

 Cornell — The Morrill Act — Mr. Cornell's 

 devotion 



2. Pioneer enthusiasm — Student employment — 



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