Williams College - Gulielmensian Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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unior Editoriaf. I SAT by my lamp one night not long since, thinking of an editorial which I had to write for the class of EIGH'1'v-six. As I rose from my chair to get my writing-materials, I heard a knock at the door. Some bore, I muttered. Three mortal hours, I suppose. I called come in, and the door opened, and there, to my surprise, stood a young lady, well dressed, and very beautiful. May I come in, and sit down a few minutes until I get my breath? she asked, as I, was rolling forward my most comfortable chair. I am almost tired out, she continued. , I stammered something in reply which I cannot now recall. However, she did not seem to listen, but went on in her talk, which seemed to be in part addressed to me, and in part a soliloquy. The fact is, I have had a perfectly beastly time lately. All that row about Mr. Diploma and his mother, but this last thing is too much. May I ask to what you refer? I interposed. , Oh, yes! she replied. I thought every one knew it, I've told it so many times. I was engaged to Mr. Diploma, by my father, but I had never seen him, and I said I wouldn't marry him unless I had a chance to become acquainted with him. So papa sent me for a visit to his stepmother, Mrs. Alma Mater, and it seemed that she didn't want me to marry him, so she never told him I was coming, and sent him off the day I arrived. But I happened to see him while driving to the house, for Alma Mater sent her servant for me, and' she pointed him out as he passed 5 and he's perfectly splendid, but don't say I said so. Well, I tried to stand his mother for his sake. Just imagine ! she boxed my ears before I had been in the house twenty-four hours, because Iquar- relled with one of her daughters about a cane. Then she said she wanted to find out if I were industrious, and suited to be her son's wife: so she gave me some Greek and Latin books and told me I must translate them and 2 ! . I 9