But Harvard's the biggest, and has the most teachers and scholars, and takes in all the branches.

And we ought to give our Arthur the best." And now--By what bitter experience had he learned that the college is not in the catalogue, is a thing apart, unrelated and immeasurably different! His eyes were hot with anger as he thought how the boy's mother, honest, conscientious Ellen, had been betrayed.
"Look here, Mark," he blazed out, "if I leave money to your college I want to see that it can't ever be like them eastern institutions of learning." He made a gesture of disgust.

"Learning!" "If you leave us anything, Hiram, leave it so that any young man who gets its advantages must work for them." "That's it!" exclaimed Hiram.

"That's what I want.

Can you draw me up that kind of plan?
No boy, no matter what he has at home, can come to that there college without working his way through, without learning to work, me to provide the chance to earn the living." "I have just such a plan," said Hargrave, drawing a paper from his pocket.