Chapter XX
truggle for admission to college er Radcliffe best t I sudy anot , til t my dream of going to college was realized.
I remember my first day at Radcliffe. It erest for me. I o it for years.
A potent force ronger tronger even t, o try my strengtandards of t tacles in t I o overcome taken to t;to be banis to live outside of Rome.quot; Debarred from t o make try by unfrequented roads--t in college toucruggling like me.
I began my studies y and lig y to knos people, scenery, manners, joys, tragedies sangible interpreters of ture- of t and t t of going to tell anybody.
But I soon discovered t college quite tic lyceum I ed my young inexperience became beautifully less and quot;faded into t of common day.”
Gradually I began to find t tages in going to college.
t and still feel most is lack of time. I used to ime to to reflect, my mind and I. e togeten to t, ouc c until t. But in college time to commune s. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to ters tals of learning, one leaves t pleasures--solitude, books and imagination--outside to find some comfort in t t I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enougo prefer present joy to a rainy day.
My studies t year ure. In t and Sainte-Beuve, and in tory from to teentury, and in Engliserature studied critically Miltons poems and quot;Areopagitica.”
I am frequently asked ions under e as if elepures are spelled into my y of turer is lost to m