There was little of the stubborn or unyielding about Vandover, his personality was not strong, his nature pliable and he rearranged himself to suit his new environment at Harvard very rapidly.

Before the end of the first semester he had become to all outward appearances a typical Harvardian.

He wore corduroy vests and a gray felt hat, the brim turned down over his eyes.

He smoked a pipe and bought himself a brindled bull-terrier.

He cut his lectures as often as he dared, "ragged" signs and barber-poles, and was in continual evidence about Foster's and among Leavitt and Pierce's billiard-tables.