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not to be slow in exercising it, especially by the writing of letters. I had a letter from a Graduate of College lately, who said that when in College he was in a hurry to get out, but that now he felt almost like wishing himself back again, felt if not quite like a fish out of water, at least like a young bird just out of its nest, hardly knowing what to do with itself. Do you think I shall feel so when I get away from here? It would seem that I have been absent from College so much, been here so little, that I should not have become very strongly attached to any thing here. Still I found on getting back here this term, that here, standing up by my old desk, in College, with College duties, and College friends about me, seemed rather the most like home after all. It might not be quite so pleasant a place as some others, it may not contain so dear friends, he may not enjoy himself quite so well as in some other places, but yet, however it may be, it still seems like home. I do expect to feel the parting from it somewhat. There are certainly peculiar ties which bind one to his literary Alma Mater.