Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: know. To the south Harvard lay quietly beneath the blue sky; from her halls there had lately gone forth men into that unknown, bravely and mar- velously accoutred. The thought grasped Peter about the heart, and he turned gravely to David. David, he said, and stretched his arms above his head, next year I shall know so much … what there is to do, and what there is to be …
Peter, David said solemnly, I wish I knew where to sign up for my meals! chapter{Section 4CHAPTER II HOWEVER, it seemed that Harvard Had expected their coining, and when Peter registered, which he found to be a simple enough matter, no one told him that he had no right to do so, but a weary and patient man handed him a large pink card, and sent him in search of his faculty advisor. He was struck by the great number of such pink cards moving aimlessly about. Upper classmen carried different colors, and moved about more purposefully, much as the second year men had done at Exeter. Peter made his way to Warren House, and waited on his advisor, watching the small group of men about him curiously. There was an unkempt lad from some northern village, powerful, and mother fearing. There was a lean and wan-looking elderly man who clutched a couple of shabby books close to his coat, and asked questions of Peter humbly. There was a keen-faced youth in tweeds, who wore tremendous rimmed glasses which gave him an affable and owllike appearance, and an aristocraticlooking fellow with a delicately chiselled face, who carried himself delightfully, his shoulders back and his chin high, and whom the professor seemed very glad to see again. Peter thought he was very fine, and wondered who he was; he wished that he himself made so splendid an appearance, or that David did. Men whose lives are given to…