In what context does Helen lay—""… but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches on a rainy day."" 10 Or Give a brief character sketch of Martha Washington.
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When Helen entered Radcliffe, she discovered quite soon that college was not quite the romantic place she had imagined. She gradually realized there were disadvantages in going to college. The one she felt most was — lack of time. She used to have time to think and reflect and enjoy some leisure moments in which she heard the words of some loved poet, which would touch a deep, sweet chord in her soul. But in college, there was no time to commune with one’s thoughts. She realized as one enters the portals of learning, one is forced to desert one’s dearest solitude, books, and imagination. She supposed she ought to find some comfort in the thought that she was laying up treasures for future enjoyment but then she says—”… but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.”