The Adventures of a Freshman

to you-take off your hat to the class above you-stop, don't try to

he one addressed, and, when he did, his first startled

ed way, as if he were a curious child, though really he was as old as any of them. The only way he could avoid them wa

is mouth. Three of them were smoking pipes and all four wore those queer striped-flannel coats of broad orange and bla

d down. One of them remarked to the others, "O, ye shades of A

rrupted in a loud tone, "Ta

upon him at the first. Its owner was the short

ded, "and don't look so sober.

reshman felt himself blushing; he s

you," put in one of the othe

l Sophomore said, "Come, wipe away that

were entering an old brown building, busily talking, their arms about each oth

eering mouth, and he constantly tried to say sarcastic things. He held his chin elevated, as if to make himself a little taller, and the bi

g a finger under his face, he snarled out, "You big, green Freshman from Squeedunk, you're the fresh

Matt," in a quick, scared voic

the walk wriggling his fingers, as was his habit, and lookin

Faculty, that hazing had its redeeming features, it was a rather reckless proceeding for a crowd of Sophom

ng was sounded and Matt Goldie was coming straight down the walk toward him, and yet,

t look at the records of the past years: In the first place, Whig Hall was founded by President James Madison when he was a student here"--and t

by, oblivious of its existence, apparently. But the Sophomores kn

aughingly, "sorry we have to leav

a moment. "What's yo

s fellow's business, but he wanted to s

init

if you want to know," answe

lie,

ho were near enough t

Young-Willie Young, especially. Hereaft

Chan," calle

Freshman as he started off and remarked, threaten

eturned Young, "you lit

g with the Sophomores was to take their initiating-not humbly, which was almost worse than getting mad about it-but laughingly and good-naturedly, for as soon as

ver been hazed and he knew very little about college custom and all that, because he had b

college year, the first real college duty of his life, and he had almost reached the quadrangle when he was interrupted by the

ng himself that he was not homesick, but that he did not propose to let anybody tal

but that had nothing to do with it. H

hat by the energetic way he strode through the quadrangle and up the broad path to chapel and took his place with two hundred others, who also were Freshmen and as green, ma