WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
"Well, as my brother had been a member of this club"
"Yes, I remember your brother," interrupted the rude old graduate, talking rapidly, "a good fellow; so, as you had a brother and these other qualifications you were elected a member of the club, and now you are the real thing, aren't you? And you feel very much pleased with yourself, don't you? and you think you have just as much right to feel pleased with yourself as those of your club-mates who were elected because they were something in addition to being mighty nice fellows and"
"But I tell you the club is going to run me for the office of"
But the old graduate, again interrupting, went on satirically: "And it's great to strut around with your arm on the collar of the captain's sweater—the sweater with the 'Varsity P on it, and bask in the sunshine of importance, and look down on your former roommate who was left out—and so you consider yourself a representative man, do you?"
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