is his unfailing confidence in his sqphomoric ability to do anything and everything to the highest degree of excellence. The same difficulties, in the shape of more advanced mathematics, that have perplexed the tireless Mechanical, now beset the Civil, too, and, like the former, he is forced to retire from College for a breathing spell in order to recuperate and be able the better to bear the burdens of the coming year.
When once more he turns his face towards the fondly-cherished scenes of his exacting, but, in the sentiments of the average student, dearly beloved labors, he finds himself confronted, at the beginning of his junior year, with many harassing difficulties that must need be surmounted, and forthwith sets himself to learning the art of "bridging" obstructing streams that are far from fordable, and of such great width that it requires not only his strictest attention now, but the earnest endeavors of a hard-spent senior year to span them.
The woes of a Civil are many; he thinks his own the most unbearable of all existences; he has more work to do than anybody else, not excepting the Classical, but his troubles over, his streams now spanned, he can stand upon the "bridges" of his own constructing, the works of his own handicraft, and say with eminent satisfaction, "These are my beloved labors in which I am well pleased; behold ye them."
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