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91 entirely set free from the leading strings of school; accuracy was cared for; they were accustomed to spoken questioning and answering in the classrooms; they lived on the most familiar terms with each other; boys in age and action, but by no means boys in their interests in literature, ancient and modern, and in contemporary matters of all kinds. They debated classic and romantic questions; they discussed poetry and history, logic and philosophy; they fought over the current battles of the Peninsular and Continental campaigns with maps before them; and their habits were inexpensive and temperate. This may appear to some persons as being out of all keeping with the regular college course; but to certain old fashioned minds it seems to be what college "men" go to college for!

Mr. Coleridge does refer to one "break-up-party " at the end of each term, in which they " indulged their genius more freely, and when their merriment was, to say the truth, somewhat exuberant and noisy." But, he adds, "the authorities wisely forebore too strict an inquiry into this." The most serious of parents and guardians, to this day, will hardly care to make too close an inquiry into little things like these; or to condemn altogether the strictly effervescing-water-black-coffee-Egyptian-cigarette-"Lit."-dinners which give their Jacks