CHAPTER XVII.
LIFE IN COLLEGE.
Probably young Garfield never passed two happier or more profitable years than at Williams College.

The Seminaries he had hitherto attended were respectable, but in the nature of things they could not afford the facilities which he now enjoyed.

Despite his years of study and struggle there were many things in which he was wholly deficient.

He had studied Latin, Greek, and mathematics, but of English literature he knew but little.

He had never had time to read for recreation, or for that higher culture which is not to be learned in the class-room.
In the library of Williams College he made his first acquaintance with Shakespeare, and we can understand what a revelation his works must have been to the aspiring youth.