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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

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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

PAGE
I Thought 9
II The Essential Gentleman 22
III Health as an Asset 25
IV Appreciation 29
V Scholarship 31
VI The Intellectual Life 40
VII The Use of Time 43
VIII Culture 53
IX College Morals 61
X Weakness of Character 6