At the
expiration of that time she joined Mr. Is burn's staff, and soon that
gentleman wrote her father that in certain lines of investigation she
was unexcelled.
With the coming of autumn, after Bob Wood's release, Quincy and Tom
started in on their four years at Harvard. They had passed their
entrance examinations without conditions, so the few days in the last
of September, spent so anxiously by many of the freshman class in
trying to make up conditions given them the spring before, allowed
Quincy and Tom to live in Arcady until the portals of the temple of
learning were ajar. Rooms were engaged at Beck Hall, and the young
men began their inspection of the classic city on the Charles.
"This city is on the square," remarked Tom. "Lafayette, Central,
Putnam, Harvard, Brattle, and some more on the East side I suppose."
"The college is on the square too," said Quincy, "as long as Dr.
Eliot is Prexie."
College life has been depicted many times in books, and Quincy and
Tom's four years probably contained few events that had not had their
counterparts in the lives of other young Harvard men. They joined
many clubs and societies the initiation ceremonies being, in reality,
a mild form of hazing.
Quincy and his chum were not goody-goody boys, but they had mutually
pledged each other that they would lead temperate lives and refrain
from all dissipation that would prejudice their standing as students.
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