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CHAPTER II - JIMMY WILL ACCEPT A POSITION.
Following his graduation he went to New York to visit with one of his classmates
for a short time before returning home. He was a very self-satisfied Jimmy, nor
who can wonder, since almost from his matriculation there had been constantly
dinned into his ears the plaudits of his fellow students. Jimmy Torrance had been
the one big outstanding feature of each succeeding class from his freshman to his
senior year, and as a junior and senior he had been the acknowledged leader of
the student body and as popular a man as the university had ever known.
To his fellows, as well as to himself, he had been a great success--the success of
the university--and he and they saw in the future only continued success in
whatever vocation he decided to honor with his presence. It was in a mental
attitude that had become almost habitual with him, and which was superinduced
by these influences, that Jimmy approached the new life that was opening before
him. For a while he would play, but in the fall it was his firm intention to settle
down to some serious occupation, and it was in this attitude that he opened a
letter from his father--the first that he had received since his graduation.
The letter was written on the letterhead of the Beatrice Corn Mills, Incorporated,
Beatrice, Nebraska, and in the upper left-hand corner, in small type, appeared
"James Torrance, Sr., President and General Manager," and this is what he read:
Dear Jim
You have graduated--I didn't think you would--with honors in
football,
baseball, prize-fighting, and five thousand
dollars in debt. How you got your
diploma is beyond me--in
not
my day you would have got the sack. Well, son, I am
you are clean,
surprised nor disappointed--it is what I expected. I know
though, and that some day you will awaken to
the sterner side of life and an
appreciation of your
responsibilities.
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