TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
the walk at times, for every one on the campus except other Freshmen. You think it rather absurd that in a college which has grown up into a university and is supposed to have put away childish things you can wear no other style of head covering than a mild form of black cap.
But it only lasts a year, this rather pleasant purgatory; and you'll appreciate your blatant blessedness all the more when you, in turn, are a Sophomore, covered with the college colors, and are yawping terribly at next year's frightened Freshmen. Then I fancy you won't think all this so absurd.
Even the Sophomores, you'll find, have to give way to the Juniors, and the Juniors to the Seniors, and the Seniors, who seem to you to own the campus, if not the earth, touch their hats respectfully to the instructors, and the instructors to the assistant professors, and so on up the scale of academic dignity. It seems rather absurd sometimes to people outside, and so it is, but there is bound to be some kind of ranking here as there is all over the world, even in America where we
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