"Would you mind telling me, please, which of these gentlemen is the President of the college?" His voice was so deferential, and there was something so eager and earnest and pure in his expression, I really believe that for a moment the instructor thought he was just a nice fool, and was on the point of kindly explaining what the statues represented. He didn’t, though, for one of the fellows in the background tittered and ran out of the room, and the little man leaned back in his chair, examined Berrisford very deliberately, and then remarked in his queer, sarcastic way,— "’Sir, thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth; but it speeds too fast—’twill tire!’" As soon as we got outside, Berrisford said,— "What a disappointing little creature! I had an idea he would be very angry, and he was n’t at all." "Did you want him to be angry?" I asked, rather surprised. "Why, yes, of course," he answered. "It’s so interesting to watch them; there are so many different ways of losing a temper. Sea-captains are the most satisfactory, I think. I discovered that last spring on my way to Europe. I go up to them when they ’re very busy—just getting out of a harbor or something—and exclaim, ’Oh, I say, Captain—shall I steer?’ You can’t imagine how furious it makes them." I said I thought I could, and we parted. He seems to have a great many friends; he has n’t spent a night at home since college opened—a week ago. Well, I went to see my adviser, who helped me select my studies for the year. That is to say, he hypnotized me into taking a lot of things I really don’t see why I should know. However, as I don’t seem to have what he called "a startling predilection" for anything (my entrance exams. divulged this), and as he was a pleasant young man who invited me to dinner next week, I allowed myself to be influenced by him. He gave me a lot of little pamphlets with the courses and the hours at which they come marked in red ink. I ’ve forgotten what some of them are, as we have n’t had any real lectures yet—just rigmaroles about what books to buy.