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worth. To Mr. Hyer, who kept the Hudibras, he owed a hundred and fifty pounds alone—or 'mine host' Hyer, I s'pose he called him. At any rate, the innkeeper, having somewhat of a modern Princeton boarding-house instinct, threatened to tell President Witherspoon or to write down home to his father, and here were the final exams. coming and Commencement.
"Now, in those days Commencement was held in the fall, instead of June, and it was a great stunt, even more than it is to-day, comparatively, only it was different, something like fair time in an English county. Not so many relatives of the fellows came, because there weren't so many relatives, and because it was such a job to get here, but the people, the country people, gathered from miles around, as well as the fashion from Trenton and Elizabethtown, and even some from New York and Philadelphia. There were horse-races up and down Nassau Street in front of old North; fakirs had tents, strewn here and there; gypsies told fortunes and played the devil; and—and—there
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