The first was spent on hill sides where shadows only made the light more buoyant as they fled away.

The second was passed in the valley where the shadow hung lazily till the cloud grew very black and drenched the soil.
"Lured to college, he undertook to acquire academic culture.

As is well known, college life with its professorial anecdotes and jokes, its student pranks and grind, is routine drudgery and cob-webbery prose.
Bookish professors and conventional students rarely have just such an animate problem of French artistry and Bohemian experience to solve.
They did nobly, to be sure, but here was a mind which threw over them all the glamour of romance." Mr.Wright entered the Preparatory Department of Hiram College at the age of twenty, having previously accepted the faith and identified himself with the Christian Church in the little quarry town of Grafton, Ohio.

He continued active in the different departments of work in his church all during his school years with the ultimate result of his entering the ministry.
Having no financial means, while in school he made his way by doing odd jobs about town, house painting and decorating, sketching, etc.

After two years of school life, while laboring to gain funds in order that he might continue his schooling, he contracted from overwork and out-door exposure a severe case of pneumonia that left his eyesight badly impaired and his constitution in such condition that, to the present day, he has never fully recovered.
Air castles were tumbled and hopes blasted when his physician advised him that it would be fatal to re-enter school for, at least, another year.