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 PREFACE.

story deals mostly with a time that is recent, but tempora mutantur. Some of the references I fear will appeal to memories only. If I have mingled the what-might-have-been with what-really-did-occur, I shall make no excuse. I have done this with the idea in my head that the one might seem quite as probable as the other.

If I have been personal, it is without malice, and if I have the merit to stir your recollections, I am rewarded.

One thing will never change, the Princeton spirit. I trust that it can be felt in this tale from old Princeton in the measure that it stirs the heart of the writer.