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"COLLEGE MAKES A MAN OR MARS HIM."

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I KNOW a man of seventy years,

Who has the ancient love of knowledge;

And don't he like the new ideas

That now prevail at Cambridge College?

"Fair Harvard" is his single tune

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For all the hymns that speak of heaven;

And he is coming here in June,

E'en now he blows for '77.

But will this Freshman be the boy

To live a life that's studious, very?

(For Ludwig Dindorf would employ

His nights in avocations merry,

If he were called as boys invite, -

If he could hear the cry in chorus:

"That beard so gray proclaims your right, -

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