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Updated: May 4, 2025
Not that I was a graduate ... my course was a special one, and I had not followed even that closely. "If you'll graduate," Jarvis Alexander Mackworth urged me, joking in the Kansas fashion, "I will present you with a great bouquet of beauty roses.... I'd like to see you vindicate Langworth's and my judgment of you.
She leaned over, turned my face up with her free hand, kissed me full in the mouth.... "My sweet poet," she repeated, "good-bye!" While at Mt. Hebron I had chosen German as my modern language. And it was a Professor Langworth's grammar and exercise book that we used as a text-book.
Then I fetched my books down from Langworth's in a wheelbarrow, and I set them up in several neat rows. I lay back on my cot and looked at them in satisfaction and happiness. I had enough for food and lodging for nearly three months, if I cooked for myself.
Turning in confusion, I ran into a man-student bodily ... excused myself ... the girls, standing further off, tittered again. "Can you direct me to Professor Gustav Langworth's house?" The student looked me over curiously. But he was of the right sort. "Certainly. Come with me. I'm going that way. I'll show you where it is...." In silence we descended the hill....
I nailed my few books up in a drygoods box and left them in care of Professor Langworth's housekeeper, the former having gone away to Colorado for the summer. As for clothes, tramp-life had taught me the superfluity of more than a change of shirts and b.v.d's. Bonton looked me over. "You don't look strong enough ... the work is mighty hard." "I'm pretty wiry. Try me out, that is all I ask.
The hill, the very top of it, I had laboriously attained. On all sides the college buildings gloomed in dusky whiteness of architecture. One of them was lit inside with the mellow glow of electric lights. And I surely looked the tramp, dusty and soiled from my long ride. I asked them the direction to Langworth's house, but they ignored me, and scattered.
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