Impressions 



suited in a foolish creature now and then and 

 I think the indigo bird is one of them. 



During these Graduate days, advice is in the 

 air thicker than ever gossamer floated in the 

 early morning. Excellent, in its way, some of 

 it, but the inclination to swathe it in feverish 

 rhetoric and to exalt the orator until the dis- 

 tance between the adviser and the advised is 

 immeasurable overcomes discretion at times. 

 To tell the class that has now finished its train- 

 ing for the great struggle, never to take a rest 

 is nonsense ; but clothe this same idea in an ora- 

 torical outburst, flowery similes and other tricks 

 of speech, and the class and its friends applaud 

 vigorously, and, very wisely, forget, the next 

 day, all the speaker said. 



Hamlet was set up, I notice, before a bench- 

 row of graduates, as a failure and Fortinbras 

 lauded to the skies. The former decried as a 

 dreamer, the latter praised as a man of deeds ; 

 but all the world has heard of Hamlet and who 

 but a beggarly few remember Fortinbras? 

 The one, dreamer though he may have been, 

 goes with us and delights us, wherever we may 

 be; but no sooner does the curtain touch the 



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