FUN AND FINANCE OF BOYHOOD 27 



"You seem to have solved all the problems of 

 life." 



"Too many unknown quantities for the equa- 

 tions in that one," was his comment. 



"But you don't need the third one," I replied. 



Samuel Phillips Newman Smyth cut his name 

 in two when he became Dr. Newman Smyth. 

 In my book he expressed the wish that I might 

 make as many friends in the world as I had se- 

 cured among my classmates and that I might be 

 similarly popular in the world to come. He pru- 

 dently clothed the latter sentiment in the form 

 of a prayer instead of a prophecy. 



I enjoyed a slight acquaintance with Profes- 

 sor Phelps of the Theological Seminary, and re- 

 member the somewhat reserved young girl whom 

 the world later knew so well as Elizabeth Stuart 

 Phelps. 



My school education ended at Andover, 

 though I studied the classics for a year under a 

 Yale man and made some progress in advanced 

 mathematics, for which I had some natural apti- 

 tude. 



