Rambles in Old College Towns

This is really the thing!" exclaimed Sister.* To walk right up on spring, as it were, from a chill, raw morning without a leaf to this balmy flowering at noon.Look, there's an apple tree in full bloom!"We entered Washington to find it at the very height of its loveliest season.Opposite the Powhatan, where we put up, a little park displayed everything used in spring furnishings from apple and cherry to lilac and spirea, nursemaids and rosy babies.We wanted to hear some of the debating going on in Congress.Boys from the very colleges we were to visit would debate there in their turn some day, and the fate of many of them now in those colleges was being settled in the House and the Senate.Were we to tackle a great offensive war, and pour millions of our own men into the bleeding ranks of the allies, or were we going to spend money only, at a pleasing interest rate?When you try to realise what it would be like to get along without words, you find that the things are important even essential.But after you have sat for a few hours listening to the quantities of these very words crowding the dull air in the halls of Congress it seems difficult to be- lieve them of the least use.We went to listen, thrilling with the idea that here we should watch and barken to history in the making.I suppose

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