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WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED

Once upon a time a certain old graduate found himself in the midst of a beautiful college campus. On all sides he beheld old beloved scenes and well-remembered landmarks; but also he discovered new haunts, new places, unfamiliar and somehow unwelcome to him. And about him, as he stood there gazing, came and went many of the same recognizable types of lovable undergraduate humanity; and yet here in the crowd strolled one sort and over there across the way stood another sort that seemed strange and unexpected. For, several generations of students had come (as wondering Freshmen) and gone (as grieving graduates) since he was a part of what he now saw going on without him—agoing on quite well without him.

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