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Updated: June 6, 2025
At breakfast Pocahontas heard Lillian Arnold tell about going over to the baseball diamond to see the Sophomores lying tied up beside the backstop, and what a joke it was on her own class and what a ridiculous figure Jack Smith had made in the coils of a Freshman's trunk-rope, with his face and hair all grimy with perspiration and dust, and that laundry agent, Mason, piled on top of him.
"That freshman's got to die If I only ... had an ax," and his one eye gazed wildly around in search of a weapon. "Come, come, Teddy Manchester," soothed a tall senior, "we'll arrange with the freshman alright. Don't work yourself into unnecessary excitement."
Just opposite to where he sat now with Langham, Grey had sat that first afternoon; the freshman's curious eyes had been drawn again and again to the dark massive head, the face with its look of reposeful force, of righteous strength. During the lesson from Corinthians, Elsmere's thoughts were irrelevantly busy with all sorts of mundane memories of the dead.
"Why, those hand-rails are meant for timid girls to take hold of. A boy would never want a toboggan with hand-rails." "Perhaps the fellow who's going to win the freshman's mile expects to invite some of the young ladies to go out tobogganing with him," hinted young Prescott. "Is it fixed who shall win that race?" demanded Laura, teasingly. "Hardly that," Dick rejoined, dryly.
There used to be much snap-dragon growing on the walls opposite my freshman's rooms there, and I had for years taken it as the emblem of my own perpetual residence even unto death in my University. On the morning of the 23rd I left the Observatory. I have never seen Oxford since, excepting its spires, as they are seen from the railway .
Pierson was surprised by the freshman's manner, for he had expected Frank to show excitement and delight. "What sort of a fellow is this?" he thought. "Does he really understand me, or is he a little thick?" Then he saw by Frank's fine and highly sensitive face that he could not be thick, and he began to perceive that the freshman had nerve.
Years ago I saw in the mirror frame of a college freshman's room this little formula: "Sickness is carelessness, carelessness is selfishness, and selfishness is sin." And I have often noticed among college girls an air of humiliation and shame when obliged to confess a lack of physical vigor, as if they were convicted of managing life with bad judgment, or of some moral delinquency.
Pooch Donovan told me about the first day that Eddie Mahan came out upon the Harvard field. At Cambridge, little is known by the head coach about a freshman's ability. One day Haughton said to Pooch Donovan: "Where is that Natick friend of yours? Bring him over to the Stadium and let's see him kick." Donovan got Mahan and Haughton said to Mahan: "Let's see you kick."
Under Grace's serious glance her eyes fell, then, to her visitors' amazement, she burst into tears. Grace crossed the room. Her arm slid across the sobbing freshman's shoulders in silent sympathy. "Can't you tell me what troubles you?" she asked softly. Mildred shook off the comforting arm with a muttered: "Let me alone. I can't tell you, of all persons. Go away."
But Georgia took it all as a mere matter of course, smiled blandly at the stories, accepted the flowers and the invitations, wrote the autographs, and explained that she guessed her sensations weren't at all remarkable, they were just like any other freshman's. "All the same," Madeline declared, whenever the subject came up, "she's absolutely unique.
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