Maroon tales Author:Will Cuppy 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: SOME ODES AND SOME EPISODES EBSTER had finished a normal college and five Summer Quarters without losing either his dignity or his given name, which was Publi... more »us Virgilius. He brought both to the Eho fraternity house, where they lasted almost a day. He heard himself christened while he was rubbing his spectacles near a door that should have been closed. "Do you mean to tell me his own parents called him that?" came a boy's voice. "Shades of Dido, what an outrage! We 'll call him plain Horace or Cicero or some other old idiot. Give me a dune, Tubby. Heads, it's Horace. Heads it is." There followed more comments of the sort boys sometimes make on hot and foolish afternoons. The comments were not kind. Horace sneaked away, blinking rapidly. Webster supposed, erroneously, that he had "seen beneath the surface," a consummation he had held hopefully in mind when he accepted Landon's invitation to live at the Eho house for the summer. The chance glimpse fully confirmed his previous belief that the "regular" students, especially the fraternity men, were light-hearted, irreverent, cheerfully careless young persons with somewhat heathenish views of life. But the foolish remarks went deep into him. They went so deep that he could not get rid of them. He rubbed his spectacles many times, and with a clearer vision, concluded that the summer was not entirely ruined. He discussed the matter at some length with Miss Sarah Pence as they sat on a bench on the Midway. "It is just what I have wanted for years," he said. "Only a few of the members of the club are in residence, and I am sure they will not mind my presence among them. In fact, they do not seem to mind much of anything. I really think I shall grow young again just living with them." "Young?" Miss Pence laughed gayly and pus...« less