OBTAINING AN EDUCATION. 3 



With this he determined to obtain an education, and 

 for three years he studied at the State Normal School 

 at Emporia, Kansas, preparing his mind to receive 

 that higher education which was gradually opened to 

 him. In order to husband his means, he rented a 

 small room and did his own cooking during the three 

 years. Mrs. A. P. Morse, an instructress in the 

 school, took a deep interest in the young man, and 

 gave him many valuable suggestions regarding his 

 mode of study, which helped him over the rough path- 

 ways until he was able to travel them alone. 



In addition to the mild persuasiveness of Mrs. 

 Morse, there came a help of a different nature. Dr. 

 C. R. Pomeroy, that sturdy and resolute president of 

 the State Normal School whose strength of character 

 has impressed so many minds in the West, saw the 

 ambition of the diffident young backwoodsman, and 

 opened to his mental vision such vast fields of re- 

 search that he breathed a new life into the veins of 

 the young man. 



After the three years at the normal school, he, with 

 one companion, went in a covered wagon to Lawrence, 

 where the Kansas State University is situated, and 

 there they camped in a sheltered vale just north of 

 the university buildings. At night they slept in their 

 wagon, and their meals were cooked at a camp-fire. 

 They camped here until the cold weather drove them 

 to warmer shelter, and then they rented a small room 

 in the city, and there did their own cooking for the 

 remainder of the year. 



While the work at the normal school had been hard 

 because it was strange, here it was hard because 



