LETTERS

FROM A FATHER

ΤΟ

HIS SONS IN COLLEGE.

BY SAMUEL MILLER, D. D.

PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY.

Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam,

Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit.

HOR. de Art. Poet.

Pudore et liberalitate liberos

Retinere, satius esse credo, quám metu.

TERENCE,

PHILADELPHIA:

PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION,

No. 265 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by

A. W. MITCHELL, M. D.

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Stereotyped by SLOTE & MOONEY, Philadelphia.

WM. S. MARTIEN, Printer.

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DEDICATION.

To every Parent who has a son in college; and to every Son who is placed in that interesting and responsible situation, this volume is affectionately inscribed. The former may, perhaps, learn from it to estimate more justly his power, though afar off, to contribute toward averting the dangers, and promoting the improvement, of one unspeakably dear to him: and the latter, if he is not blind to his own honour and happiness, and reckless to all the claims of his friends, his Alma Mater, his Country and his God, will certainly find in it counsels not unworthy of his most serious regard.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

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 substance, were actually addressed to them. There is, probably, not one idea contained in this manual which was not, during their course in that Institution, distinctly communicated to them, either orally or in writing. The influence of these counsels on their minds, it is believed, was not wholly useless. May they prove still more useful when presented in this revised and more public form!

PRINCETON, March 30, 1843.

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