Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1896-01-24
Miscellaneous.
THE FRESHMAN.

beside the big door at the end of th
hall, his hat tipped far back from BIZ
forehead aud his hands deep IN hi
pockets, looking out at the green cam
pus. Before the door the broad Ia
walks, marked with countless boot heels
stretched away like spokes Of whee
from the hub, and aoress them the tai
trees threw deep shadows Behind hin
the hall ran back until it ended in an
other big door with another dusty panet
window on each side Of it. Its wall
were Clipped and marked and its foo
worn into uneven hollows by the pass
ing feet of vanished classes. 1t was al
most empty A few homesick looking
individuals sat on the radiators, drum
ming their feet against the iron lattice
work of the sides, or examining the bull
letin board, on which the notices of last
years final examinations we're still post
ed. Twenty. -four hours later the hall
would be noisy with greetings and a
very valley of the shadow for embar-
raised freshmen, but at present it's only
occupants were few early stragglers,
who had reached town before tho open
ing Of the semester,
For month the. sophomore had been
longing for sight of the familiar cam.
pus, but now that the longing was sat
isfied its place had been taken by dis
taste for approaching work Moreover,
the only old acquaintance he had come
across was the short, red faced keeper
of cigar stere,and as a eonversationalist
''Rosey" was failure. The combina-
sen of dread and solitude had brought
him ~ :. ,ei!,isA,:trUu ~ the fact that the
dullness of college town during the
vacation was no chimera, but fact,
which before bis time had driven unlor-
tunateu to drink aud profanity
One Of the figures near the farther
door slipped down from the seat on the
radiator and came slowly through the
hall, stepping softly and seeming to fear
the hollow echoes in which the walls
shouted back the sound of footsteps
BY this sign the sophomore knew him
for the freshman that he was He re-
nchpe'ou ,no ''"o VIM" '"o ""io VI
the old building had seemed to cry,
Fresh Fresh Fresh 7" at him. The
freshman stopped at the sophomore's ell
bow.
"Can you tell where can inl out
about the entrance examinations in
mathematics p he asked, with the usual
freshman manner, which becomes Iam'i-
lar 70 those VINO see mucn OF tne species
not hesl,atlngly, nor yes pimuen'y' pu,
az one VINO mas thc rear ol pe'ng mueneu
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