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Excerpt from Cap and Gown in Prose: Short Sketches Selected From Undergraduate Periodicals of Recent Years
In the first place, it was plain that the selec tions should be short. Moreover, they should, so far as possible, be concerned with scenes drawn from actual life. Finally, the point Of View should be that Of youth.
If this aim has been carried out with even approximate success, these sketches are not without elements Of unique value. Life as it now appears to the philosopher he can describe for us, but life as it appeared to him in youth he can hardly trust himself to picture. That this little book is representative Of the best prose composition Of American colleges its editor would hesitate to assert. Nor does he claim for the compilation that it represents the relative merit Of the English departments in various colleges. It aims to entertain; to suggest the college atmosphere and the college point Of View; to remind the graybeard Of the days when campus, gridiron, diamond, track, Prom, and grind were words which stood for things that made up a large part Of his real world; and, finally, to show how near in some instances the natural portrayal Of simple things in the fewest words may approach originality.
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