To anticipate a little, he completed this course, and fitted himself to enter the Junior class at Williams College in the space of three years.

How much labor this required many of my readers are qualified to understand.

It required him to do nearly six years' work in three, though interrupted by work of various kinds necessary for his support.
He was not yet able to live luxuriously, or even, as we suppose, comfortably.

He occupied a room with four other students, which could hardly have been favorable for study.

Yet, in the first term he completed six books of Caesar's commentaries, and made good progress in Greek.