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We cashed in our savings, we drew on everything there was to draw on, and on February 1, 1909, the three of us embarked for Harvard with fifty-six dollars and seventy-five cents excess-baggage to pay at the depot, such young ignoramuses we were. That trip East was worth any future hardship we might have reaped.
Since that time several of us have had occasion to change our minds. With the passage of years we have fleshened up, and now we know better. The last time I saw the Thompson boy he was known as Excess-Baggage Thompson. His figure in profile suggested a man carrying a roll-top desk in his arms and his face looked like a face that had refused to jell and was about to run down on his clothes.
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