WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
the clubs, has you pretty well sized up; I have a notion that among those outside of the clubs to whom this amusing little story of your 'success' is quite well known, there are plenty of real men who would scorn your so-called success—at such a price. I have an idea that your own club-mates would resent your claiming to be a representative club-man as much as non-club-men would object to your calling yourself a representative Princetonian. I presume that you do not appreciate this, because you are surrounded on one side by your own crowd who tolerate you because they have to, and on the other side by those who boot-lick you because they want to get in your crowd—and so you see no other kind of Princeton men, not being keen-sighted enough to see through these. No, I hardly believe you'll do much permanent harm. It ought to require something more robust than you to kill Princeton spirit. For, after all, you are, I venture to say, merely a type—not a very numerous one at that—of one phase of modern Princeton life brought
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