The Family's First College Student Years and years ago, back when the American frontier was still in the final throes of being tamed, there was a young fellow who showed a remarkable aptitude for academics. ""Son,"" the boy's father said, ""we ain't nothing but a bunch of poor, simple, country folk... but *you* got them *brains*."" The father pointed a calloused finger at his boy. ""You ain't gonna work digging latrines like your old man; you is going to *college!*"" Off the young man went to a …