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...Cambridge. Her friend of '84 was there. He was a very aesthetic fellow, though he dressed rather loudly, and brushed his hair over his ears in a peculiar way which led Tootsy to think that some one had been pulling it. She told him of this in her frank way. He laughed, and answered, "It's quite the ta-ta thing." Tootsy opened her hazel-nut orbs in astonishment, and said, "You use some kind of hair preparation." This would have floored an ordinary man, but the representative of '84 went on undisturbed. "I never bat; in fact, none...
...left Wight the next morning, having pressing engagements elsewhere. I was very sorry indeed for the necessity which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...
...would laugh at him for asking such an absurd question, and tell him that he ought to know that I never studied; that to study was bad form; and as for going to recitations, why, I never go. But as this letter is to you, and is withal a frank confession, I will acknowledge studying a little now and then when I think no one will see me; for to be found grinding is to be held up for ridicule to all the "best men" of the College. No one objects to your standing up high in your class...
...Frank Hyslop, '81 Stevens
...Frank Hyslop, '81 Stevens