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...play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest of the day. The mock affection of the embraces can hardly be called a deception, since no one supposes that the number of our friends is to be counted by the number of our embraces; and a for the nonsense of the proceeding, the truth of the well known rhyme...
That some few Seniors, conspicuous by the smallness of the number, do show that their potations have been so frequent as to make them forgetful of the conduct becoming to gentlemen, hardly proves that the rest of the class should be debarred from a pleasant frolic. The personal disgrace of a few does not disgrace their class...
...differ from the other groups. For instance, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard might form a group; Amherst, Dartmouth, Brown, and Wesleyan, another; and so on. This is not a fine classification, but it is safe to say that the more one of these groups keeps itself from the rest the less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university which it will be the aim of every college to imitate; but until that time comes it would be better for each college to work out its own ideas and restrain any innate desire to cross swords...
...College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...
...Sing ye rest? Naught can be until, lovingly...