The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories/What the Old Graduate Learned

WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE
LEARNED

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WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
Once upon a time a certain old graduate found himself in the midst of a beautiful college campus. On all sides he beheld old beloved scenes and well-remembered landmarks; but also he discovered new haunts, new places, unfamiliar and somehow unwelcome to him. And about him, as he stood there gazing, came and went many of the same recognizable types of lovable undergraduate humanity; and yet here in the crowd strolled one sort and over there across the way stood another sort that seemed strange and unexpected. For, several generations of students had come (as wondering Freshmen) and gone (as grieving graduates) since he was a part of what he now saw going on without him—agoing on quite well without him.
​Now, old graduates are notoriously inclined to resent change in the looks or character of their Alma Mater, One reason is that it somehow reminds them that they, too, are changing and growing old—though that is not what they generally say about it—but this old graduate considered himself quite open minded. "There can not be growth," said he to himself sententiously, "without change. I will not condemn; I shall inquire.

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