PREFACE

A school has been very correctly termed a littleworld of itself. Within it the temptations andstruggles and triumphs are as real as those in thelarger world outside. They differ in form, not incharacter, and become for many a man the foundationupon which later success or failure has beenbuilt.

It is perhaps wise for me to explain that the boyswhose lives in the Weston school have been outlinedin this book are "real" boys, and that every factrecorded actually occurred much as it has beendescribed. If the results of the struggles and successesshall prove to be a stimulus to other boys who maybe facing similar problems, and if the failures shallserve the purpose of a warning word and teachthe younger readers what things are to be avoidedand how they are to be overcome, the author willcertainly feel well repaid for his labor.

Unfolding life is ever a marvelous sight, and theinterest with which we follow those who are trendingnow the paths once familiar to us never failsthose still young in heart while old in years.

The recently developed interest in the work andlives of the younger people, is one of the marvelsof this closing century. Greater than any of thediscoveries of science, nobler than any of the greatmovements of the times is that renewed interestin the possibilities of the young life all about us,undeveloped it is true, but filled with the promiseof power.

So many times our eyes are opened when it istoo late to behold the vision. We may preach, andwarn, and urge, and exhort, and scold, but nothingwill take the place of actual experience. It isnatural for each young heart to wish to learn and testlife for itself.

However, I am not without hope, that the friendshipand sympathy for Ward Hill and his friendsmay not be entirely without their unspoken lessons,and that before my readers there may arise for eachone the vision of the man who is yet to be.

When all our platitudes are ignored or forgottenit is still true that youth is the seed-sowing time,and what a man sows, as well as the measure of hissowing, determines the character and the abundanceof the harvest he will reap. We do well, then, tostrive at least to scatter the seed at the time whenthe seed can be sown. The soils may vary, the seedis the same.

I trust that the interest, the pride, the s

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