WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
about by the transition from college to university.
"Now run along, little boy," the old graduate concluded, "you can strut for a while longer. The social system hasn't yet digested you—maybe it will refuse to do so; make the most of your opportunities while they last. Unless everything is changed much more than you have made me think, unless the venerable traditions have been forgotten overnight, unless the old spirit has evaporated in a single day, unless Princeton is no longer Princeton, you are doomed to an unpleasant and early end. So run along, grab the coat-tails of importance, strut your little strut while you may. Run along, please. This is merely what I believe the undergraduate body, club-men and non-clubmen alike, think of you in their hearts. Maybe I am wrong, but run along—quickly, please—before I tell you what we think of you."
That, however, might not have been printable.
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