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Excerpt from Sabrina, the Class Goddess of Amherst College: A History
We will choose, to look through, the eyes of a man, a business man say, who is looking into college from the outside, and who himself has never been to college. His sons are there, getting an experience which has been denied him. From time to time come echoes of how they fare, such reports as reach him through the newspapers. What are his hopeful wards doing all this time? If his exacting business cares allow him an occasional thought of them, it surely must be not unlike the thought that came to Byron's gladiator, There are his young barbarians all at play. The newspapers do not report much more. The scores of football and baseball and tennis and track hll the page and make exciting news; he sees his boys' pictures in padded clothes or in thin drawers clearlynot meant for the costume of the class-room. About the class-room itself, and the library, and the laboratory, he may search in vain for reports of achievement or prog ress; such things do not make sensational items for the crowd. Even the sons themselves, home on their vacation, one suspects, are not eloquent about their college routine, or they pass it off with hints of the bluffs and tricks by which the routine is enlivened. What are they doing to become scholars, or get ready for the coming toil and moi] of business? Clearly, if the outsider depends on the papers for his information, college is a holiday, a place for high jinks and play. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
