![]() ![]() The facts you have garnered with such infinite trouble invariably fail you at a pinch. Its old-fashioned garden was the paradise of my childhood. It was called 'Ivy Green' because the house and the surrounding trees and fences were covered with beautiful English ivy. ![]() It is most perplexing and exasperating that just at the moment when you need your memory and a nice sense of discrimination, these faculties take to themselves wings and fly away. The Keller homestead, where the family lived, was a few steps from our little rose-bower. It happens too often that your trumpet call is unheeded. The days before these ordeals take place are spent in cramming your mind with mystic formula and indigestible dates-unpalatable diets, until you wish that books and science and you were buried in the depths of the sea.Īt last the dreaded hour arrives, and you are a favoured being indeed if you feel prepared, and are able at the right time to call to your standard thoughts that will aid you in that supreme effort. Although I have faced them many times and cast them down and made them bite the dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob Acres I feel my courage oozing out at my finger ends. “But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life. ![]()
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