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 thought it a pity every one did not appreciate them. He told them so. "You boys have never been intellectually starved," he used to say, "or you would look at these things as I do. If you had been obliged to earn the price of your college course you would make better use of it"; and so on, all very sound and sensible, but after a while one became tired of being reminded of it, and of how much wiser was the reminder.

They were quite patient with him, however, until he began making blasphemous utterances about their college customs and campus traditions; they won't stand much of that, especially when given with a patronizing air as of being serenely superior to all their petty strenuosity.

Naturally it would have been impossible for him to take it all so hard as they did; he had an outside, grown person's point of view; his horizon was not bounded by the campus fence, and it seemed amusing to him, almost absurd, the enthusiastic seriousness with which they took all the little affairs of their tiny college world. "Dear me!" he laughed