Charles Chapin Tracy, missionary, philanthropist, educator, first ...

6 CHARLES CHAPIN TRACY
Dr. Tracy later taught his grandchildren:
That much of youthful hardship is in reality privi-
lege;
That such intimate communion with wilder nature
as pioneer experience affords is well for the soul;
That hatred of work can be replaced with enthusiasm
for it;
That a hill farm much given to stones and hardpan
is an excellent school of patience;
That a poor young man, busy with strenuous manual
labor, can at the same time prepare for college;
That when one encounters the impossible, it is well
to walk all around it expecting to find a hidden pos-
sibility;
That life and labor count for most where they are
most needed, and that there are more golden weddings
in the missionary class than in any other class of equal
numbers.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE AND MARK HOPKINS
In 1862 a young man with high ambitions and some
trepidation made his way to Williams College and
applied for admission to the Junior class. The
examining professor asked him where he had prepared
for college. " On the farm," was the answer. The
teacher looked doubtful, but assigned the applicant
a passage in Caesar and gave him half an hour to
prepare to translate and recite on it. As soon as the
young student glanced at the passage, however, he
said, " I am ready now, sir," and he plunged into the
business of his examination like a war horse charging