Stephen Leacock (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From Stephen Leacock From There I Went To The University Of Toronto, Where I Graduated In 1891. At The Univer Sity I Spent My Entire Time In The Acquistion Of Languages, Living, Dead, And Half-Dead, And Knew Nothing Of The Outside World. In This Diligent Pursuit Of Words I Spent About Sixteen Hours Of Each Day. Very Soon After Graduation I Had Forgotten The Languages And Found Myself Intellectually Bankrupt. In Other Words I Was What Is Called A Distinguished Graduate, And, As Such, I Took To School Teaching As The Only Trade I Could Find That Needed Neither Experience Nor Intellect. I Spent My Time From 1891 To 1899 On The Staff Of Upper Canada Col Lege, An Experience Which Has Left Me With A Profound Sympathy For The Many Gifted And Brilliant Men Who Are Compelled To Spend Their Lives In The Most Dreary, The Most Thankless, And The Worst-Paid Profession In The World. I Have Noted That Of My Pupils Those Who Seemed The Laziest And Least Enamored Of Books Are Now Rising At The Bar, In Business, And In Public Life; The Really Promising Boys, Who Took All The Prizes, Are Now Able With Difficulty To Earn The Wages Of A Clerk In A Summer Hotel Or A Deck Hand On A Canal Boat. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses State-Of-The-Art Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.