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1. In comparison to previous generations, which of the following is NOT true of members of Millennial?
A. They are more ethnically and racially tolerant.
B. They are more confident and self-expressive.
C. They are more politically and socially progressive on issues such as immigration and homosexuality.
D. They are more likely to struggle with creating a social networking profile.

2. What is society?
A. The totality of learned, socially transmitted behaviour.
B. The structure of relationships within which culture is created and shared through regularized patterns of
social interaction.
C. The norms, values, and beliefs of a large group of people.
D. The geopolitical entity within which a culture resides.

3. What is social interaction?

A. The process of learning norms, values, beliefs, and other requirements for effective participation in social
groups.
B. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.
C. The ways in which people respond to one another.
D. A series of relationships linking a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.

4. Which of the following is an example of social interaction?

A. Felipe watches television and does needlepoint.
B. Mary wallpapers her bedroom walls.
C. Sally and Veronica, a lesbian couple, argue about a new piece of gay rights legislation.
D. Enrico surfs the internet, looking for shoes.
5. According to Herbert Blumer, which of these is NOT a distinctive characteristic of human interaction?
A. The reality of humans is shaped by our perceptions and evaluations.
B. Humans respond to behaviour based on the meaning we attach to the actions of others.
C. Humans interpret or define each other's actions.
D. Humans use gestures to communicate.

6. Jimmy has finally got up the nerve to ask Miranda out on a date. Spotting her across the cafeteria, he makes
eye contact and starts to move toward her. She turns her back on him. Jimmy, perceiving this as a rejection,
loses his nerve and doesn't approach her, when in fact, Miranda had just heard her name called by someone else.
Of what is Jimmy's reaction an example?
A. The meanings we attach to the behaviour of others shape our response to them.
B. Human beings merely react to one another's actions.
C. The meanings others attach to our behaviour shape our behaviour towards them.
D. Non-verbal signals are less relevant to social interaction than verbal signals are.

7. Dominant groups do NOT generally have the ability to do which of the following?
A. Define a society's values.
B. Define social reality.
C. Mold the "definition of the situation".
D. Arrange all social interactions to benefit themselves exclusively.

8. Which of the following terms refers to the way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships?
A. socialization
B. social structure
C. social interaction
D. culture

9. Which term is used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large
group or society?
A. status
B. culture
C. social structure
D. Gemeinschaft
10. Jan, Mikomi, and Fatma are science majors, and when they graduate from college, they find jobs as a nurse,
a midwife, and a hospital administrator, respectively. Of what are these new positions examples?
A. statuses
B. social roles
C. groups
D. social networks

11. Which of the following social positions is an ascribed status?

A. one attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
B. one assigned to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or abilities.
C. one that is earned.
D. one that is reached as a result of negotiation.

12. Diego, a married bus driver who is an avid amateur photographer, falls off the edge of an embankment
while photographing migrating waterfowl. He sustains serious head injuries, and is in hospital for two weeks.
Which of the following is an ascribed status attached to Diego?
A. bus driver
B. married man
C. amateur photographer
D. hospital patient

13. Which of the following statements about an ascribed status is correct?

A. It is easy to change when an individual becomes older.
B. It has the same social meaning in every society.
C. It is based on an individual's skills.
D. It is biological in origin, but significant mainly because of the social meanings attached to it within a given
culture.

14. Which of the following is an ascribed status?

A. a major league baseball player
B. a corporation president
C. a quadriplegic
D. a university student

15. What kind of social position is an achieved status?

A. one attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
B. one assigned to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.
C. one assigned to an individual at birth.
D. one given to an individual based upon his or her age, race, or gender.
16. Guiliana, a second generation Italian-Canadian, is a respected contemporary composer. She is also visually
impaired, having lost her sight due to scarlet fever as a child. Which of the following is an achieved status
attached to Guiliana?
A. second generation Italian-Canadian
B. respected contemporary composer
C. visually impaired
D. female

17. Which of the following is an achieved status?

A. daughter
B. Native American
C. television news reporter
D. second in line to the throne

18. What is a master status?

A. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group
or society.
B. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
C. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.
D. A series of social relationships linking a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more
people.

19. You walk into your women's studies class, and you look at the person sitting to your left. He is the only
male in the class; he is about 20 years old, wears a wedding ring, and carries a bag with a tennis racquet. Which
of his characteristics is most likely his master status in the context of this class?
A. his age
B. his marital status
C. his gender
D. his interest in tennis

20. Which term is used by sociologists to refer to a set of expectations for people who occupy a given social
position or status?
A. social role
B. structural role
C. achieved role
D. ascribed role
21. Which of the following statements about social roles is correct?
A. The roles that belong to a social status are always performed in the same manner.
B. Social roles are always performed in the same manner by those holding ascribed, but not achieved, statuses.
C. Actual performance of a role varies from individual to individual.
D. Role expectations and actual role performances never vary.

22. Which term is used to refer to incompatible expectations that arise when the same person holds two or more
social positions?
A. role strain
B. role conflict
C. role ambiguity
D. role exit

23. Keisha is a clinical sociologist who practices marriage and family therapy. She is also a college professor.
One of her current students asks her if she can make an appointment for a therapy session.
Keisha tells the student that she will refer her to a colleague. What does she feel that holding therapy sessions
with a student might create?
A. role strain.
B. role conflict.
C. role exit.
D. status displacement.

24. A woman in her mid-30s has enrolled in a local community college to earn a degree in horticulture.
The night before her first major course examination, she is asked by her boss to work several additional hours
because they have just received a major order that needs to be processed immediately. What is this student
experiencing?
A. role reversal
B. role conflict
C. role exit
D. status incompatibility

25. What is the term for the difficulty that arises when the same social position imposes conflicting demands
and expectations?
A. role conflict
B. role strain
C. role exit
D. resocialization
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 “Sit down, all of you,” he said, pointing to chairs by his low, broad
table.
Pushing back the sliding door of a case behind the table, he took out a
tray containing small round pieces of iron and steel.
“Shall I tell you about these specimens, or will you ask me?”
“Just give us a general idea, Jack,” answered Mr. Prescott; “we might
ask the wrong questions.”
“Then, Billy Bradford,” said Mr. Farnsworth, smiling at Billy, “I’ll
explain to you, and the others may listen.
“You see we chemists analyze the ores before they are smelted; so we
know something about what kind of pig iron we shall have. But when we
want to know what kind of finished iron or steel we have from a given
process, we can’t tell much by analyzing it, so we have to depend on our
microscopes.
“Metals crystallize, if they have just the right conditions. Each metal
has its own form; so, if you could find a single crystal, you would
recognize it by its form.
“But when melted iron grows solid, the crystals are crowded so close
together that, when it is prepared for the microscope, and polished like
this, the surface looks as if it were made up of ‘crystal grains.’
“Sometimes crystallization takes place in steel if it is subjected to long
repeated jar. Many accidents in engines are due to that.”
As he took the cover off his microscope, Mr. Farnsworth said:
“I suppose, Harry, that your ‘pygmies’ are the elements that are found
in the various kinds of iron?”
“The same,” answered Mr. Prescott.
“Then I shall tell Billy Bradford that some of the pygmies are enemies
and others are friends; some need to be driven away, and others should
be invited to come in.
“The most numerous enemies are the Carbon pygmies. The blast
furnace drives most of them off, but they have to be fought in the pig
iron, too.
“Sulphur pygmies are about the worst of all, because they make the
iron brittle. They are practically the hardest to drive away.
 “Phosphorus pygmies haven’t a good reputation, but they are in much
better standing than the Sulphur enemies.
“Now, if you’ll look in here—this is the purest and the softest Swedish
bar iron—you’ll see where the edges of the crystals come together. These
are friendly Ferrite pygmies, crowding close together. Ferrum is the
Latin name for iron; you must remember that.”
“If I didn’t know,” said John Bradford, when he took his turn, “I
should think I was looking at some sort of wood with a very fine grain.”
“This,” said Mr. Farnsworth, changing the specimen, “has black and
white streaks in it; that means that the iron has begun to be steel. When it
has light patches like these in it, we know that it has taken up more
carbon, and has grown harder.
“So it goes,” he said, showing one after another of the specimens.
“You can see for yourself that, if friendly pygmies stand in line, taking
hold of hands, that would make a good kind of iron to draw out into a
wire. If enemies stand around in groups, they make the iron easy to
break.
“When we want steel for chisels, for example, we invite Tungsten to
come in; when we want certain parts for automobiles we call in some
Vanadium pygmies.”
“So,” said Mr. Prescott, “while we need the giants to make the pig
iron, the real value of the iron and steel depends on the pygmies.”
“That’s about the size of it,” said Mr. Farnsworth.
“Anything the trouble with you, young chap?” asked Dr. Crandon.
“You haven’t spoken for ten minutes. Feel bad anywhere?”
“No,” answered Billy. “I was just wishing I could know about all those
things.”
“I’m glad it’s nothing worse than that,” said Dr. Crandon.
“Now,” said Mr. Prescott, “we’ll start for some more giants. Coming,
Farnsworth?”
“Sorry, not to-day. Call again!”
“The steel mill comes next on my program,” said Mr. Prescott, when
they went out. “I want you to see a Bessemer converter, an open hearth,
and some crucibles, because that practically covers the different methods
of making iron and steel.
“Here is the Bessemer converter. You see it is an iron cylinder made of
wrought iron plates, and it tapers off at the top in a conical end. See. It is
swinging down to be filled almost as easily as you can turn your hand
over. In a moment it will stand up again, twenty-five feet tall.
“Bessemer got hold of the idea that air could be used instead of fuel.
They say he risked his life in his experiments. He worked a long time,
but he won, and the Bessemer converters started the boom in steel.
“See it come up again, with fifteen tons of hot pig iron in it. Down in
the bottom of the converter is a blast chest where the air is forced in
under pressure, after it has been blown into a tank by blowing engines.”
“O-o-oh!” exclaimed Billy, as the top of the converter seemed to burst
into flame, and a shower of sparks came down.
“That,” said Dr. Crandon, “is surely a fearful sort of thing!”
Then the flame began to drop slowly, and they saw that the converter
itself was safe.
“This process burns out all the carbon. Bessemer was trying to make
wrought iron when he started out. Now they put back the right amount of
carbon, and make the iron into steel.
“It’s a chemical process. When the air strikes the hot metals the
oxygen unites with them, and they burst into flame. The whole process
takes between fifteen and twenty minutes.”
“I am very sure,” said Dr. Crandon, “that I shouldn’t like to work
here.”
“When we get to the open hearth process, which is the rival of the
Bessemer,” said Mr. Prescott, “I expect that none of you will want to
work there.”
“For my part,” said John Bradford, slowly, “I prefer Prescott mill.”
“So do I,” said Billy.
“Which reminds me,” said Mr. Prescott, “to tell you that I have been
looking at some machines to help in the foundry. They will help about
lifting and ramming; but they won’t do away with the work of men.
 “Here we are, gentlemen, before a Siemens-Martin open hearth. This
is a continuous process. It was evolved by Sir William Siemens, a
German-English engineer, and his brother. Then a man named Martin, a
Frenchman, I understand, found a way to mix the iron and steel that are
put on the hearth, so it bears both the names.
“We’ll just look in. It is a large, shallow basin, made of bricks, partly
filled with iron. Both hot air and gas are burned on top of the iron. The
process takes seven or eight hours; but it produces larger quantities of
steel than the Bessemer converters can do.
“Then, too, it furnishes all kinds of iron and steel, for they sample it as
it burns, and draw off the steel at any percentage of carbon that they
want.
“Cast iron has a great deal of carbon in it; steel has much less; and
wrought iron has almost none.
“Now, we’ll go over to the crucible furnace.”
They walked slowly across the yard.
“There are no giants here,” said Mr. Prescott, “with the exception of
the furnaces in which they set the crucibles; and they are small,
compared with the furnaces that we have seen.”
They found themselves in a long room lined with shelves of clay
crucibles, about eighteen inches in height. On the sides of the room,
under the shelves, were rows of small furnaces, each large enough for
two crucibles.
“The crucible process,” said Mr. Prescott, “gives us our finest steels. It
is a simple melting together of iron and charcoal. The carbon of the
charcoal passes into the iron. When the crucibles are filled, they are set
in the furnace, and left for several days.
“They make a special kind of crucible steel over in Sheffield.”
While he was saying that, Mr. Prescott glanced at Billy, but Billy was
looking at the furnace, and did not hear what Mr. Prescott said.
Mr. Prescott looked at him hard, as he said:
“The home of the crucible is Sheffield.”
“Sheffield,” said Billy, turning, “is where they make good jack-
knives.”
 “Want to see a genuine Sheffield?” asked Mr. Prescott, putting his
hand into his pocket.
That time he didn’t have to attract Billy’s attention, for Billy stood
waiting.
“See,” said Mr. Prescott, pulling out a chain that had a knife on it, and
opening the blades. “See, it has Sheffield on both blades.”
Billy’s eyes saw the “Sheffield.” Then they saw something else, for on
the side of the knife was a little silver plate, and on it—he had to look
twice—was “Billy Bradford.”
“That’s a good knife,” said Billy.
The three men smiled, each his very best smile.
“Thank you, Mr. Prescott,” said Billy as he took the knife. Then he
smiled, too.
“Now for the steel mill, and the last of our giants.”
“Is the mill deserted?” asked Dr. Crandon, as they went in.
“It’s much easier,” said Mr. Prescott, “to find the giants in a steel mill
than it is to find the men. If you look around you’ll find a few, but they’ll
be in most unexpected places.”
“I see a man,” exclaimed Billy, “up in a cage!”
“He’s controlling that crane,” said Mr. Prescott. “See it carry that ingot
of red-hot iron!”
“This,” said Dr. Crandon, “passes belief. There’s a boy over there, in a
reclining chair, who is opening a furnace down on this side.”
“Look at that!” exclaimed John Bradford, pointing to a crane like a
huge thumb and forefinger, which had picked up a red-hot ingot, tons in
weight, and was dropping it on a waiting car.
“Let’s follow it,” said Mr. Prescott, pleased to see John Bradford so
excited.
They followed it to a room filled with clanking rolls.
Another crane swung the red-hot iron into the jaws of rollers.
On went the fiery bolt, sometimes up on one roller, then down on
another, till at last they found that it had come out a finished rail.
 Then a huge, round steel magnet, lowered by a man in a derrick house,
picked up half a dozen rails; another lever sent the crane down the
overhead tracks; and the rails were dropped in order on waiting cars.
“It used,” said Mr. Prescott, “to take a dozen men to load a single rail.
“Giants or not, Billy Bradford?”
“Giants for sure,” replied Billy.
“Fire-eaters!” exclaimed Dr. Crandon. “Let’s go!”
“I’m ready,” said Mr. Prescott. “I’m glad that the work is so much
easier for the men, but I must confess that I don’t care to watch red-hot
iron shooting, almost flying around.”
“I’m ready to go,” said Billy.
“Joseph,” said Mr. Prescott, a few minutes later, “drive till you find a
country road.”
That evening, as they sat together on the hotel veranda, Mr. Prescott
said:
“I’ve been thinking,” then he stopped a moment to see whether Billy
was listening, “how much iron has done to make the world smaller.”
Then, seeing that Billy’s eyes were opening wider and wider, he said:
“The world is so much smaller than it used to be that I sometimes
wonder how much smaller it may grow.”
“Isn’t it just as far around the world as it always was?” asked Billy,
looking first at Mr. Prescott, then at his Uncle John, and then back at Mr.
Prescott.
“It’s of no use, Billy,” said Dr. Crandon, “to expect this man to tell us
anything straight out. He’s trying to train our minds. If we’re going
around with him, we shall have to submit to indirect methods of
obtaining information.”
“If you’ll excuse me, Crandon,” said Mr. Prescott, “I’m not sure that
Billy won’t learn as fast by my ‘indirect methods’ as he will by the kind
of words that you are using.”
“Even, I think,” said Dr. Crandon.
Then the three men smiled, each in his own way.
 Billy didn’t smile. All his best heroes seemed to be showing
“disagreeable spots” at the same time.
But Billy had only a minute of thinking that, for Dr. Crandon said, in
his most friendly tone:
“I think I know what he’s driving at, so I’ll lend you a hand. It would
take a long time to sail around the world, wouldn’t it?”
“Sure,” answered Billy, quite like himself.
“But, if we were to start in an automobile, and drive to a train that
would take us to San Francisco——”
“And then,” said Uncle John, “take a steamer across the ocean——”
“And,” finished Mr. Prescott, “get back home in less than forty days,
wouldn’t that make the world smaller than if we had to sail and sail and
sail?”
“Of course,” answered Billy. “Anybody can see that.”
“And, if you were to go alone, Billy,” continued Mr. Prescott, in his
very friendliest tone, “you could wire me or ‘phone me or cable me
almost anywhere along the route. Wouldn’t that make the world seem
very small?
“And what do all these things mean but iron—iron engines and iron
rails and iron wires and watches with steel springs and magnetic steel
needles in compasses that guide the great steamers through the paths of
the sea?”
“Sometimes,” said Billy, in a half-discouraged tone, “I think there’s no
end to knowing about iron.”
“That’s not very far from true, Billy,” said Mr. Prescott. “We could sit
here till to-morrow morning trying to mention things made of iron, or by
means of iron, and then we should be likely to forget many of them.
“If it weren’t for iron and steel implements and tools, men would have
hard work to earn a living.
“Dr. Crandon, what does it seem to you that we should lose if we were
to lose iron?”
“I’ve been thinking about the arts—surgery, too. We need iron for
sculpture, for music, for printing books and papers. We need iron, I
should say, for art’s sake.”
 “And you, Bradford?”
“I’ve been thinking about agriculture. I never realized, before this trip,
how we really depend on iron for our food. That phosphatic fertilizer set
me to thinking about plows, mills, and all sorts of things.”
“I think,” said Mr. Prescott, “that the man was right who said that the
strength of nations depends on coal and iron far more than it does on
gold.
“Another man said practically the same when he said that iron has
given man liberty and industry: tools and implements of peace, as well as
weapons of war. When you think it out, that seems to cover it all.
“Now, Billy,” Mr. Prescott went on, “I know what you will say. You
may say it.”
“Without iron,” said Billy, smiling up at Mr. Prescott, “we should be
just ‘nothin’, nobody.’”
“My lecture course,” said Mr. Prescott, “is now finished.
“To-morrow, I am going to show you where they try to make—do
make—something greater than iron.”
 CHAPTER XVI
WHAT MR. PRESCOTT SAID
“AT four o’clock, Joseph.”
Billy looked at Mr. Prescott wonderingly.
“Why four o’clock, questioner? Because, when I’m going to see a
place, I like to see it at its best. I like to see this place in the afternoon,
when the shadows have grown long.
“No; no more questions.”
At a quarter past four, Joseph stopped the car in front of a beautiful
wrought iron gate.
“That’s a beauty!” exclaimed Dr. Crandon. “It reminds me of some of
the old mediæval work that I saw in Italy. What’s this, anyway?”
Mr. Prescott shook his head.
“All right, Prescott,” said Dr. Crandon, “I’ll wait.”
“As for that gate,” said Mr. Prescott, “I may as well admit that I am a
bit proud of it. The men of my year put it there.
“As for the place, I think,” said Mr. Prescott slowly, “I think I might
safely say that it is where they make, or try to make, a certain kind of
castings.”
“Would it be fair, Prescott,” said Dr. Crandon with a smile, “for me to
say that you yourself are prone to think professionally?”
“Quite fair, I assure you,” answered Mr. Prescott, with a bow.
“I don’t see anybody making anything,” said Billy, in a disappointed
tone.
“In the summer they have to rest both their machinery and their
material,” said Mr. Prescott.
Then Billy knew that Mr. Prescott expected him to keep his eyes and
his ears open until he found out for himself where they were.
“Let’s walk,” said Mr. Prescott.
 “HE’S STILL LOOKING AT THE GATE”

They were at the first corner when Billy exclaimed:

“Where’s Uncle John?”
“There he is,” said Mr. Prescott, turning around. “He’s still looking at
that gate. Don’t blame him much,” he added.
Back Billy went.
John Bradford was so absorbed in studying the gate that Billy had to
call him the second time before he turned.
 “Eh! Billy, my lad!” he said. “I should like to do a piece of work as
beautiful as that. That is true artist work.”
Something in his tone made Billy say quickly:
“You’re an artist yourself, Uncle John. Miss King said so.”
“I should really like,” said John Bradford again, “to do such a piece of
work as that.”
“When we get home,” said Billy, “why don’t you begin?”
“Eh! Billy, my lad!” said Uncle John, but this time he said it with a
smile.
“He was wishing,” said Billy when they overtook the others, “that he
could make an iron gate.”
“I’ll confess, here and now,” said Mr. Prescott, “that I myself have had
aspirations of that sort.”
“Is iron-work coming in again?” asked Dr. Crandon. “It seems to me
that, just lately, I have seen some very beautiful gates.”
“I think so,” answered Mr. Prescott. “There are a few men who seem
to have caught the spirit of the old smiths, and to have seen the
possibilities in wrought iron. The man who made that gate is one of
them. He has invented a liquid, too, to prevent the rusting of the iron.
“You see that a man who works in iron must be both an artist and a
smith—he must blow the forge and use the hammer. That gate in cast
iron would be almost ugly. In the Swedish wrought iron, it is truly
beautiful.
“The old fellows knew much more about the artistic side of iron than
we do. Look at the old French locks—even a French king prided himself
on his ability to make locks.
“There was a time when an apprentice to a locksmith had to make a
masterpiece lock before he could become a master. It usually took him
two years to do it, for he had to chase and chisel it from the solid.
“I’ll tell you, Bradford, something that Billy Bradford doesn’t know. I
have a workshop of my own at home in the lower part of the house.
“A long time ago I began an iron gate for the garden. When we go
back, Bradford, let’s finish it.”
 Billy, looking at his Uncle John, smiled serenely.
Then Billy walked by Uncle John, while Mr. Prescott and Dr. Crandon
went slowly before them down the long avenue of elms.
Billy listened to the two men as they talked. He found out that they
had both been to college, and then somewhere else. He couldn’t quite
make out what Mr. Prescott’s other place was; but it was somewhere
specially to study iron.
This talk about college was all new to Billy. He liked the stories that
they told, one after another. He had never seen Mr. Prescott so happy.
“That,” he said, stopping before a large brick building that looked very
old, “is where I used to room. Second story front.
“Billy, look back.”
Billy, turning, saw the great yard, green everywhere, with long
shadows of trees and buildings resting on it in the low light of the
afternoon.
“It’s like the city and the country put together,” he said. “It’s the most
beautiful place that I ever saw!”
“Prescott,” said Dr. Crandon, “were you ever on a football team?”
“He was captain,” broke in Billy. “He told me so!”
“He’s captain still,” said John Bradford, in his slow, even way.
They all looked at him a moment.
“Good, Bradford, good!” exclaimed Dr. Crandon. “That’s what he is!
I’m inclined to think that football is a good training place for a captain of
industry.”
“It’s all team work,” said John Bradford. “Some do one thing and
some another, but without a captain a team can’t win.”
There were times when Uncle John said things that Billy couldn’t
understand. He did just then. But Billy knew, by the look that came into
Mr. Prescott’s face, that he was very much pleased.
“It takes,” said Dr. Crandon, “two sets of men to make the world move
along: those who work with their heads, and those who work with their
hands. For my part, I believe that one set works about as hard as the
other.”
 “I’m truly thankful, Crandon,” said Mr. Prescott, “that there’s
somebody in the world who realizes that.”
Then they all started down the avenue of elms. Mr. Prescott had
slipped his arm through John Bradford’s, and was talking to him
earnestly.
Dr. Crandon and Billy loitered along behind.
“Mr. Prescott seems to be unusually fond of his ‘Alma Mater,’” said
Dr. Crandon.
“What,” asked Billy, “does ‘Alma Mater’ mean?”
“It’s a Latin name for a college,” answered Dr. Crandon. “I think that
‘cherishing mother’ is a pretty good way to translate it into English.
“A college looks after you, and tries to make a man of you, something
the way your mother does, you know.”
“All the mother I ever had,” said Billy, “was only a week.”
“Oh, young chap, I’m sorry,” said Dr. Crandon, throwing his arm
across Billy’s shoulder the way college boys sometimes do.
“I tell you what I’d do,” he added quickly; “I’d begin to think about an
‘Alma Mater.’ You could work your way through, you know. I began that
way myself.
“Don’t you do it, though, on less than three meals a day—square
ones,” he added with professional zeal.
“I shall keep an eye on you, young chap. I surely shall!”
Then he remembered that he had some letters to post, and hurried off
to the nearest box.
Billy kept on walking toward Mr. Prescott and Uncle John, who were
coming slowly back under the beautiful trees.
After he had gone a little way, Billy waited, in the middle of the walk,
for them to come up.
Mr. Prescott still had his hand through Uncle John’s arm. How happy
Uncle John looked, and Mr. Prescott, too!
When they reached him, they stopped.
“I’ve found out,” said Billy. “This is where they make——”
 “Try to make,” corrected Mr. Prescott.
“Men,” finished Billy.
Then Mr. Prescott put his hand on Billy’s shoulder, and, looking right
down into Billy’s eyes, said slowly:
“He’s your boy, Bradford, but he belongs to me, too.
“We’ll work together, and we’ll see whether between us we can help
him to come to be a man.”

The Stories in this Series are:

THE STORY OF
COTTON
THE STORY OF GOLD
AND SILVER
THE STORY OF
LUMBER
THE STORY OF WOOL
THE STORY OF IRON
THE STORY OF
LEATHER
THE STORY OF GLASS
THE STORY OF SUGAR
THE STORY OF SILK
THE STORY OF
PORCELAIN
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looking at the gate"
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