I can not remember a time since I have been grown when I did not know, intimately, boys of high school age and in high school, and when I did not like to sit down and talk to them. One group of boys, only a few years ago, I had almost daily contact with from the time they entered high school until they graduated from college. As a college executive, I meet, personally, every autumn, hundreds of boys fresh from the training of the high school, and revealing almost at once what they have gained and what they have missed. It is this intimate contact with so many thousands of high school boys that has induced me to write the papers contained in this little book.
Morals and Manners was read before a meeting of the North Central Academic Association; Going to College was given as a Commencement address to the boys of the University School, Cleveland, Ohio; the other papers have not previously been printed.
Thomas Arkle Clark
Urbana, Illinois,
- August, 1919.
