TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
chap with the big brow—are to be your close companions for four years, and you may as well begin to get acquainted with their faces at once. Some of those you hate in Freshman year will be your best friends before you get through with each other. You'll never get so well acquainted with any other set of men throughout all your life as with this variegated assortment now passing by.
Yes, that's your bell, but you've plenty of time. It'll ring for seven minutes. In a few weeks you'll be so hardened to it that when it rings for morning chapel you'll stay in bed until it's half-way through ringing, then jump into a sweater and a pair of trousers and run downstairs three steps at a time and swing on your coat on the way down; tie your necktie on the way across the quadrangle and your boots during the prayer. Some people think that's very sloppy, and no doubt it is, but they thought it picturesque when they read about the same thing in "Verdant Green." But he was at Oxford, and the book is a classic. There are worse things than being slightly sloppy during these four
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