ASPINALL, B.A

the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was willing to preach my way through school. I did not know anyone in the school, nor did I have any definite promise that I would get a charge near the College. Incidentally, I might say that I had been in

llege square with the world. A few weeks after school opened, I went to our conference and was assigned to a circuit in close proximity to the College, which paid me $360 for the year. 6 There were

mer, which, of course, had been sadly neglected during the school year. It need hardly be said that there were many trying times. I had much p

be in sleet and snow, and the steward had been able to collect only $3.21, when I needed much more than that to pay my board bills. Then when I could succeed in casting these gloomy thoughts from my mind, in would rush

s able to graduate, free from debt, though I had seldom been so during the whole five years. I feel as though I have a

t always conducive to optimism, but I felt like I had to get through. The same zest I had then for learni

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