 At the age of 17 he settled on a farm of his own in Illinois but quickly gave up farming to enter college.After a brief stint at the Academy of Olivet College in Michigan, he transferred to Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, where he developed a love for the classics and began a career that led him to become one of the nation's most distinguished scholars of Greek.A gifted educator and noted orator, upon graduation from Drury he accepted the position of principal of Drury Academy, a position he held for 13 years.