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From plunging frog, or cattle wading...
...about with lots of books under their arms and a very dazed and unhappy expression of countenance. They tell me they are called sub-Freshmen, - things just like Freshmen, only younger and smaller, and trying very hard to be really Freshmen, just like a tadpole tries to be a frog. They have to learn all sorts of things, - Ethics and Dentistry and Agriculchar, and another kind of culchar that they learn in the pretty building with the bell. Among other things, they have to learn Geography. Now I never could remember all those colors on the map, - could you? Green...
Such is the ideal scrub. Many a good fellow, whose purse will not permit him to choose his tailor, is wrongfully confounded with him. Many a man who swells with as much self-satisfaction as the fabulous frog is nearer to him than he ever imagined. Many approach him more or less nearly at one point or another, but a scrub is a perfect scrub only when he is physically, mentally, and morally in need of a good scrubbing...
...college standards, becomes often a totally different being when thrown into the world. Some, lionized and petted by their small circle of friends and acquaintances, assume alarming proportions in their own estimation, and, by reason of their own greatness, are threatened with the tragic end of the fabled frog. The more numerous class, however, are swallowed up in the larger life of some great city, where, in contact with the great, broad stream of humanity engaged in the strife of active life, they realize the pettiness of their own small achievements and successes, and are led to wonder if these...
...voluminous, but so much space is occupied by Book-notices, Exchanges, etc., that little is left for original matter. That little, however, is good. The following is a specimen of its wit: "The Professor of Geology told the Seniors, in a lecture, that during the Triassic age, huge batrachian, frog-like animals, as large as cows, infested the earth. One of the class wishes to know if that was the origin of bull-frogs...