The Diary of a Freshman

THE DIARY of a FRESHMAN
By
CHARLES MACOMB FLANDRAU
Author of Harvard Episodes
NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY MDCCCCI
Copyright, 1900, by The Curtis Publishing Co.
Copyright, 1901, by Doubleday, Page & Company
University Press John Wilson and Son Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO THE For Ever Panting and For Ever Young.
Courteous acknowledgment is here made to the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, in which these papers first saw the light.
THE DIARY of a FRESHMAN
Mamma left for home this afternoon. As I want to be perfectly truthful in my diary, I suppose I must confess that before she actually went away I sometimes thought I should be rather relieved when she was no longer here. Mamma has a fixed idea that I came to college for the express purpose of getting my feet wet by day, and sleeping in a draught by night. She began the furnishing of my rooms by investing in a pair of rubber boots,—the kind you tie around your waist with a string. The clerk in the shop asked her if I was fond of trout-fishing, and she explained to him that I had always lived in the West where the climate was dry, and that she did n't know how I would stand the dampness of the seacoast. Mamma thought the clerk was so interested in my last attack of tonsillitis I didn't have the heart to tell her that all the time he was looking sympathetic with his right eye, he was winking at me with his left.