Approximately 20 million students are projected to attend college each year. During college, the most influential aspects are the professors. Goodbye, Mr. Chips written by James Hilton was published in 1935 by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, Inc in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. While reading Goodbye, Mr. Chips, I realized all of the hardships and achievements that are seen within a professor. Professors are not only there to teach, but they are also there to make a lasting connection with their students. When Arthur Chipping become a professor at Brookfield, he started out as a strict teacher getting after students. Gradually through his years he lightens up on the rules and becomes close with many of the boys. While
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Born in 1848, and taken to the Great Exhibition as a toddling child--not many people still alive could boast a thing like that ( Hilton 8).
This then continues throughout the book, by the middle it gets a little better as they are just focusing on what Mr. Chips is saying and doing.
When a loved one dies we wish that they would just stay 5 more minutes. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips, it teaches to always take the time you have granted that you never know when your time is going to be. The students that attended brookefields never realized how important Mr. Chips was to their lives on campus. As the last person to talk to Mr. Chips was Linford has the discussion of:
Merivale answered: “Not always by himself. He married, you know.” “Oh, did he? I never knew about that.” “She died. It must have been--oh, quite thirty year ago. More, possibly.” “Pity. Pity he never had any children.” And at that, Chips opened his eyes wide as he could and sought to attract their attention...He struggled, slowly, with his words. “What-was that-um -you were saying-about me-just now?” (Hilton 113)
At this point Mr. Chips wakes up and says that he has had many children, thousands and thousands of them. His next and last words before he passes are the last names of the many students he
Born in 1848, and taken to the Great Exhibition as a toddling child--not many people still alive could boast a thing like that ( Hilton 8).
This then continues throughout the book, by the middle it gets a little better as they are just focusing on what Mr. Chips is saying and doing.
When a loved one dies we wish that they would just stay 5 more minutes. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips, it teaches to always take the time you have granted that you never know when your time is going to be. The students that attended brookefields never realized how important Mr. Chips was to their lives on campus. As the last person to talk to Mr. Chips was Linford has the discussion of:
Merivale answered: “Not always by himself. He married, you know.” “Oh, did he? I never knew about that.” “She died. It must have been--oh, quite thirty year ago. More, possibly.” “Pity. Pity he never had any children.” And at that, Chips opened his eyes wide as he could and sought to attract their attention...He struggled, slowly, with his words. “What-was that-um -you were saying-about me-just now?” (Hilton 113)
At this point Mr. Chips wakes up and says that he has had many children, thousands and thousands of them. His next and last words before he passes are the last names of the many students he