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Excerpt from For the Blue and Gold: A Tale of Life at the University of California Berkeley Station is the scene, the time the middle of August, when the University town wakes up after a three months' sleep and takes on a livelier hue with the Opening of a new college year. A train from the city has just arrived, and, as a result, the reader is, in the foregoing dialogue, introduced to James Rawson, sub-freshman, and to the leading spirit of a band of jolly sophomores. According to immemorial custom the latter is gathered at the station to see how many green freshmen can be baited. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.