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1 ' Bill, did you go to the meetin' last night?" " Yes." 

 ' i How was it ? " " It wa 'n 't no meetin ', leastwise no p 'liti- 

 cal meeting there wa'n't nothin' in it fur the boys ; it was 

 only one of them scientific college purfessors lecturin V 

 And so I sped homeward, pondering on many things, but 

 strengthened, by this homely criticism, in my determina- 

 tion to give my efforts henceforth to the new university. 



