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Download or read book Tipyn O'bob, Vol. 15 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tipyn O'bob, Vol. 15: October, 1917 Briefly there is very little to be said in favor of beginning to wear a gown. The beautifully uniform appearance which the campus would present, the academic atmosphere, the graceful, flowing lines, have all been SO often and so eloquently described that no one dares mention them again. Even the more plebeian and less aesthetic facts, that we have all voted to wear gowns, that their constant use would bring poverty upon the Wilson-laundry-family, that they are unparalleled as water proofs, that these four years are the only time they can be worn; even these have failed to incline the undergraduate heart gown-ward. For these other facts remain. Gowns catch in every door, they trip up ten people on every stairway, they Slide down the neck at every step, they trail in every ink well. They make the tall, Slender figure look positively emaciated; and even one who has never seen the picture can well imagine the effect produced by the short and stumpy person who wears a heavy coat in winter and then superimposes a gown. But at least this much can be said for the gown. It gives the beginner in its use something to grumble about in those long harrowing moments between breakfast and nine O'clock; and that after all is a greater boon than it seems at first Sight. It is an excellent thing to have a gown to abuse when one must abuse. It spares the room-mate and promotes friendly feelings. But after awhile even this advantage will be taken away. For some unknown reason, everyone who wears a gown steadily for a couple Of weeks comes to be one Of those devotees who speak SO tenderly and SO incomprehensibly to their unconverted friends about academic atmosphere and laundry, never mentioning ink wells or obtrusive doors. All that is necessary is a habit: and a habit is not always a dangerous thing. Much smooth repetition Of a collegiate platitude prompts reaction in favour Of an Old cast-off, whose place it has come to fill. It is so very easy to point the finger Of scorn at grinds, SO easy to fortify ourselves against their attitude by the usual current half-truths. We are glib in a wisdom which must have been useful once, in checking a dangerous tendency, but from which the virtue is beginning to depart. After all. 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.