CONCERNING THE "NICEST FELLOWS"
campus, in these dormitories, for laying down a good working foundation of a knowledge of human nature—including your own. Do not miss the opportunity. When you get settled down in the world most of you will fence yourselves off from one another by office hours, business principles, worldly sophistication and wives. Now is the time.
I'm reminding you of this, because, you see, you are by way of becoming one of "the big men" of the college yourself and having arrived by a different route, I sometimes wonder if you are getting all that's coming to you out of your college course. No, I'm not going to jump on you for catching that condition in Physics. That's shop, and I promised not to talk shop any more. (Instead, I write it to you once a month or so.)
What do I refer to? Well, Little Tompkins isn't one of the "big men," like you; I know; he didn't even make a club, but his brother is a dear friend of mine, and if the kid Tompkins is anything like George, I'm sorry you've missed each other. What's that? You say you have nothing against
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