CHAPTER XV.
THREE BUSY YEARS.
Among the readers of this volume there may be boys who are preparing for college.

They will be interested to learn the extent of James Garfield's scholarship, when he left the Geauga Academy, and transferred himself to the Institute at Hiram.

Though, in his own language, he remembers with great satisfaction the work which was accomplished for him at Chester, that satisfaction does not spring from the amount that he had acquired, but rather that while there he had formed a definite purpose and plan to complete a college course.

For, as the young scholar truly remarks, "It is a great point gained when a young man makes up his mind to devote several years to the accomplishment of a definite work." When James entered at Hiram, he had studied Latin only six weeks, and just begun Greek.

He was therefore merely on the threshold of his preparatory course for college.