COPEY AND THE FRESHMEN

Freshmen, it has been observed, are the recipients of a deal of advice. He who would ordinarily treat the world at large from the abundance of his wisdom when at Cambridge tells it to the Freshmen. It signifies a commendable spirit of helpfulness this instinctive notion that we must do something for the Freshmen;--but there would be more cause for satisfaction if we could conceive the possibility that something might be done for the newcomer without it also being done to him--in the way of moulding his character.

So far as we can recollect there is only one person in Cambridge who has realized this possibility. Copey has this unique distinction. Each year he "does something for the Freshmen," but each year he is content to entertain them without feeling that he will let an opportunity go by, if he refrains from advising them.