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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt:...other by entering into the world at large, than other connections, and new employments, in which they no longer share together, efface the remembrance of what passed in earlier days, and they become strangers to each other forever." Thus talked and felt the poet, and can it be that his feelings in this respect should ever be yours or mine in regard to our college friendships? I trust not. /indulge in no such forebodings. I think our friendships are placed on a basis which through life, though we be widely separated from each other, shall last and burn, though with but a gentle rlame. I am like the Irish girl with her lover; he swore he loved her more than his own soul, his own life. "Ah," said she "the fires that burn so fiercely soon burn out; I would have one to love me Utile and love me long." These are my sentiments. I am, I suppose, of the cold blooded temperament. I cannot be so enthusiastic as some in matters such as that. I have been schooled a little by experience, and not now, as once 1 did, do I think the tree-tops reach into heaven. Yet cool as I am, I expect life to close before my love to some shall cease to burn (I sa1d friendship before, but I believe with Thomson, that "True love and frienship are the same"). I know that the heart is deceitful, and that we often do not know ourselves, yet these are not the outbursts of an hour, but the sober expectations ol many moons. Of course I do not expect that myself and friends will feel so ardently attached while we are unable often to interchange the kind offices of frienship as otherwise, but yet there is no reason to see why friendship should become extinct..... You are aware that I was clothed with a kind of apostolic power from the Ohio Alpha in regard to Midd...