An American Girl and Her Four Years in a Boys' College - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XL END OF THE PKEPARATION.--BEGINNING OF THE CAREER. "Large interests keep the soul free; like the great oceancurrents which interchange the climates of the globe, they balance the nature and modify all excess."--Anon. When the second semester began, Will elected her studies without consulting any one except Nell. She secretly hoped that Randolf would not be in the same classes, for then she would rarely see him, and that, she thought, would be a great relief. She decided to take history and analytical chemistry, and she kept on with Greek and Latin. When she went into Professor Roemer's room to get the list of historical questions, the first one she saw was Pandolf, who had come for the same purpose. "Why, of course," she thought, "I might have known he would take history! And maybe, after all, it is a little cowardly for me to be unwilling to meet him in recitations." Nell took chemistry also, and they made themselves large aprons, and engaged tables at the laboratory side by side. The first morning, when they were arranging the bottles on the shelves and washing test-tubes, Will glanced across to the next row, and on a card above one of the tables she saw Randolf's name, which meant that he had engaged it for work. It was rather a coincidence that Randolf should have chosen practical chemistry too, and she was more amused than annoyed at the fact that their tables were so situated that she would see the back of his head whenever she looked up. Randolf had chosen a course in toxicology as a probable help in his future work, so that Will's motives and his were the same in electing work in the laboratory; for she had returned to her original intention of studying medicine, and for this a course in chemistry was the first...