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                               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*



                                  *I*


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 didn'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