‘I daily became more amiable, and might perhaps by this time have nearly attained perfection, had not my Preceptoress been torn from my arms, e'er I had attained by seventeenth year.’

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Paul said of Timothy: “I have no one else like him, who takes a genuine interest in your welfare” (verse 20), and “Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel” (verse 22).

Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.