Excerpt from Rambles in Old College Towns IT was late in April when we decided to begin our little tour of the Old college towns here in the East by starting for Virginia. We'd neither of us ever been farther into the Old Dominion than Mount Vernon, which is not SO much part of a State as part of history, so the distance beckoned with all the allurement of the new. Then there was the hope of warmth and sun, powerful magnets in this cold, grey, unwilling war Spring, as reluctant to mobilise as the most pernicious pacifist in a House and Senate just then struggling with the Conscription Bill. 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.

Excerpt from Rambles Round the Campus We Are All Desperate!; He Hated Himself; Humpty Dumpty; Lights of the City; Substitute for Studying; Derelicts of Life; Being Happy Always; The World Today; Highbrows - by a Lowbrow; Danger! Busy Men!; Fable of the Empty Wagon; Observing Nature; Mere Pretenders; Cure for Discouragement; Cloistered Culture; College Men's English; Being so Funny; Cherry Pies and Life; Growing Up; Perspiration and Inspiration; Ten Little Indians; Through the Ages, round the World; The College Man; I Wish I Were Home; "In a Friendly Sort o' Way"; Ballast and Cargo; Reflections 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.

Excerpt from Rambles About the Country A Winter Evening' 3 Excursion, A Southern Winte, r Incident respecting an Owl, in South Caro lina, mockihg-bird, Festivities in the Holydays, Merry-making, near Lake Ontario, The Hawk's Nest, ist Junction of the Gaule y River and the Great Kenbawa, C hristmas 1n the Parishes, A Southern Plantation, Old Guinea Custom, A Ramble among the Mountains, Hickory-nut Gap. 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.