It seemed when he died as if half the college had died.

He was a man of great refinement and scholarship, and was fond of collecting rare books.

He had a great many editions of Milton which he liked to exhibit to his friends.

He had a most delightful wit, and was the author of some very good songs and other humorous poetry.
I do not of course undertake to give sketches of all my classmates, either the living or the dead, or those who have attained distinction as useful and honorable members of society.

So far as I know their career since they left college, there is none of them of whom the class or the college need be ashamed.
The different classes had not much intercourse with each other unless it happened in the case of boys who came from the same town, or who came from the same school, until late in the college course, when the members of the Hasty Pudding Club and the Porcellian, the two principal secret societies, formed intimacies beyond their own class in the meetings of those clubs.