James Sutton Hardigg

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James: "I loved the Outing Club. In fact, that saved me because when I came to college it had struck me three weeks before I came that I really didn't understand anything. I didn’t understand why we were here. I didn't understand the meaning of life. I had always put my full energies in whatever I undertook and I had done well in school … but now I couldn't see what we do all this for…. When we came as freshmen, the first thing we had to do in freshman English, Professor Booth's English … you had to write an essay on why you came to college and I wrote about my quest for meaning. I didn’t get any response from Professor Booth at all... So what saved me was the outdoors. I felt something in places like the forests at Moosilauke."

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