

things slip out as I open its pages. The 

 eager enthusiasm of the first dawning 

 appreciation of the undying beauty of the 

 old poet, faintly discerned in the language 

 which embalms it, comes back like a whiiT 

 of fragrance from some by-gone summer. 

 The potency of college memories lies in the 

 fact that in those years we made the most 

 memorable discoveries of our lives ; the un- 

 known river may widen and deepen be- 

 yond our thought, but the most noteworthy 

 moment in all our wanderings with it will 

 always be the moment when we first came 

 upon it, and there dawned upon us the 

 sense of something new and great. To 

 most boys this rich and never-to-be-forgot- 

 ten experience comes in college. Except in 

 cases of rare good fortune, a boy is not 

 ripe for the literary spirit in the classic 

 literature until the college atmosphere sur- 

 rounds him. To many it never discovers 

 itself at all, and the languages which were 

 dead at the beginning of study are dead at 

 the end ; but to those in whom the instinct 

 of scholarship is developed there comes a 

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