HAN C. DAY

me. He had six boys and two daughters by his second marriage. We lived on a rough mountain farm. Our income was meager and our educational and cultural advantages even more meager. Our public schools were of the poorest kin

urs were poor. At the age of seventeen I had my first five consecutive months of school. This gave me a taste for more knowledge, since h

of school and on Saturdays and holidays, to pay my way. By this time I found it possible to teach in the country schools. This I did two terms. There was finally an opening at college wher

ake up the branches in which I was deficient in the preparatory department, and to graduate with my Bachelor's degree on the 1st of June, 1901. Having to do the manual labor that I did and at regular hours, established in me regular habits, both in meeting engagements and in pr

y in the spring of 1907. Meantime, however, I gave two years to teaching and to the work of the Y. M. C. A. as student secretary in Tennes

I did get in the way of education through this long course of labor, manual and mental. Many encouragements came along the way. There were many

ity.