CHAPTER XVI.
ENTERING WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
James Garfield had reached the mature age of twenty-two years when he made his first entrance into Williamstown.

He did not come quite empty-handed.

He had paid his expenses while at Hiram, and earned three hundred and fifty dollars besides, which he estimated would carry him through the Junior year.

He was tall and slender, with a great shock of light hair, rising nearly erect from a broad, high forehead.

His face was open, kindly, and thoughtful, and it did not require keen perception of character to discern something above the common in the awkward Western youth, in his decidedly shabby raiment.
Young Garfield would probably have enjoyed the novel sensation of being well dressed, but he had never had the opportunity of knowing how it seemed.