THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD
I knew something of this sort was about due. Of course, it would have been preferable if it had come a little earlier in your college course. But I knew better than to try to force it on in these pow-wows with you. For it's one of those things every man has to learn for himself. However, I am glad it has come at last. I am glad to hear that you have made the great discovery that, "after all, a man comes to college to study." How did you find it out!
I suppose it is because you are now beginning the fourth and last lap of the race that you have suddenly taken to looking back over your course, and sigh at having loitered so much along the way. Possibly it is because you have at last become a man and desire to put away childish things. Well, you have, to be sure, lost a great many
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