The life of a collegian - 1853 Author:Life 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: CHAPTER II. Enfans de la folie, chantons! Sur les maux de la vie glissons! Plaisir jamais ne coûte de pleurs, II sème notre route de fleurs. Dejà l'hiver de l... more »'âge accourt; Profitons d'un passage si court ! L'avenir peut il être certain ? Nous finirons peut-être demain. Desaugiehs. A College life is, or used to be, about as different from any other, as that of the free and wandering Gitano is from the staid and sombre existence of a Latter-,day Saint. It is separated by a whole double diapason from all other forms of social intercourse, to such a degree, that a residence of some years in such a place, and surrounded by such associations,will colour an entire after-life. The ceremonies and conventionalities of civilization, as they are elsewhere generally recognised and obeyed, are disowned, and practically unknown. All the duties and pleasures of life are here followed, with a total disregard of the hours of day and night; and a sublime contempt for places, times, and persons. Men who are intimately acquainted, enter each other's chambers, at all times, and on all occasions, freely and unceremoniously, and enjoy a freedom of speech, and a community of possession, worthy of the Chaldees of old, or the sons of the houseless desert; but then their season of life is the spring, teeming with warm hearts, and open and generous affections." They have not yet learned to be selfish. There were, at the era of the events recorded in this narrative, certain peculiarities which, whether favourably or not, distinguished college men from the external world. They were noticeable for being the most fashionably- dressed men in the city, except on Sundays, when, if they did make their appearanceabroad, they made it a point to present themselves in old clothes; in order, as they said, to ...« less