/ ^ / ^-^^ /^ THE COLLEGE COURSE AND THE PREPARATION FOR LIFE COLLEGE COUESETHE THE PREPAKATIONAND LIFEFOE TALKS ON FAMILIAREIGHT PROBLEMSUNDERGRADUATE BY FITCHALBERT PARKER President of the Faculty of SeminaryAndover Theological BOSTON AND NEW YORK MIFFLIN COMPANYHOUGHTON 0it3Er?ibc Tj^xts^ CambriDfle($fte 1914 -xo: TO NE^," PUBLIC L... 1. / ^ ^^^'lJ.L ASTO'^. LSNOX A^:D COPYRIGHT, 19I4, BY ALBERT PARKER FITCH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October IQ14 TO F. D. F. AND GENEROUSWHO IN UNWEARYING LABORS NATIVE NOBILITY OF SPIRITAND HAS LIVED BESIDE AND FOR ME BEAUTIFUL AND EFFICIENT LIFEA APOLOGIA No man can fathom the heart of a youth. He is, of all men, the most incom-who thinks he can, petent to deal with youth's problems. But, be- in youth, I know something of itscause I believe manifestations. know itsamazing and moving I capacity for idealism and the capacity for pain the passion, atthat often goes with it. I know once the glory and the peril of youth, which leaps and surges in its veins, and also the poign- ant moral suffering that accompanies passion, as truly in youth as in middle age. I know that deification of sorrow, made by thosestrange whom sorrow has not yet really touched, and the struggle with insurmountable obstaclesheroic that youth will make and love.