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When all the grand old forests fall where deer were wont to roam...
...CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen...
...preparation. Can it justly be a matter of surprise that at your annual visits home old friends will find you changed? Not necessarily gone to the bad, of course, but with a good many angularities of character worn down by constant attrition, and a number of lines, which were wont to be sharply drawn, now quite obliterated. Very likely a few failures to attain the rank as a scholar, which all who knew you had predicted, bring discouragement, a belief in the unfairness of a marking system as an indication of profit derived, and a fondness for general reading upon...