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D E D I C A T I O N . To every Parent who has a son in college and to ererg Son who is placed in that interesting and responsible situation, this volume is dectionately inscribed. The former may, perhaps, learn from it to estimate more justly his power, though afar 08, to contribute toward averting the dnngeri, and promoting the impro cmccnt, of one nn spcakably dear t, o him and the latter, if he is not blind to his ova honour and happiness, and reckless to a11 the claims of his friends, his Alma Mater, his Coantry and his God, will certainly Gnd in it counsels not unworthy of his most serious regard.THE writer of this volume has had five sons trained and graduated in the College of New Jersey. The following Letters, not, indeed, precisely in their present form, but in clubstance, were actually addressed to them. There is, p m bably, not one idea contained in this manual which was not, during thcir course in that Institution, distinctly communi cated to them, eithe o rally or in writing. The influence of thesc counsels on their minds, it is believed, was not whoIly usclees. May t, hey prow still more useful when prcscntcd in this revised and more public form C O N T E N T S . LETTER I. PAD E Introductory, .................. .........., ............ . ..... ......... ... ...... 7 LETTER 11. Obedience to tho Laws, .................. ...... ........ ......... ......... 16 LETTER 111. RInnners, .................. ......., . ......., . . ........... ....... . ....................... 29 LETTER IV. niornls, .... ....., . ..., . . ., .. .... .. .... ..... ... . .... .., . . ... ... ... ... ... ... . .. 46 LETTER V. Religion, ..................................................................... 6 . 5 LETTER VI. Rebellions, ......... .., ., ......, ......, ...., .... ............... .. ....... .....-77 LETTETL VII. IIcalth .......................................................................... 88 LETTER IS. Form tion a nd Value of Character .................................... 113 LETTER X. Patriotism, .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . . ., . . . . . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . .. 122 Vi CONTENTS. LETTER XI. FAaE Particular Studies, ......................................., ................. 121 LETTER XII. Genarnl Rending, ........................................................... 145 LETTER XIIT. Attention, Diligence, ............ .......................................... 166 LETTER XIV. Associations, Friendships, ............................................... 176 LETTER XV. Litcrary Societies in CoIlege, ............................................ 186 LETTER XTTI. Dreas, .......................................................................... 193 LETTER XVTI. Csrc of the Students Room, . . .......................................... 1 98 LETTER XriIII. Expenses, ......................., ............................., ............ 2 .. 0 . 3 LETTER XIX. LETTER XX. Parents, ...................................................................... 219 LETTEE Vacation S, .................................................................... 226 LETTER SSII. ConcIuding Remarks, ......... ............................................. 233 L E T T E R S, L E T T E R I...
