Notes and Questions.
Who were "the boys"?
What was the "Almanac's cheat"?
What catalogue do you think Holmes meant?
How could it be interpreted as showing spite against "the boys"?
How did the poet defend "gray temples at twenty"?
What was the significance in early times of the garland or wreath upon the head?
What do you think the garlands which the poet imagines his classmates "have shed" represent?
Of what does Holmes say their new garlands were made?
What might the "new garlands" represent?