THE FIRST DAY AT COLLEGE
hero for the "grim determination" with which he sticks to his "high purpose despite adversity," but so many fellows earn their living in college that they are no longer treated as heroes or want to be.
And here, closing up behind him and making a convenient contrast for me to preach about, is young Dashwood, of the famous Dashwood family. You may recognize the nose. Watch the contrast now as he passes the high and holy purpose. Dashwood has the complacency and conceit of all that snobbish—hello, er—well, that's one on me, isn't it, Dick? I beg their pardons, both of them. I really had no idea the democratic spirit of the place was potent enough to affect a Dashwood. It's only temporary, though, I fear. When he is graduated the outside world will produce its effect upon him. I fear it has to some degree on me, Dick. It'll do me good to get back here oftener, I believe. Didn't I tell you they were a pretty fine lot on the whole, these clean-cut, straight-from-the-shoulder American young men? I've simply been
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