Excerpt from Ezra Hardman, M. An;, Of Wayback College: And Other Stories He considered it One of the leading Eastern Universities, and would have been sur prised and shocked to learn that Yale and Harvard regarded it as decidedly Western, and spoke of it scornfully as a fresh-water university. Mrs. Hardman dried her eyes and, taking the younger child in her arms, prepared to follow the fortunes of her lord and master. A kitten which they had presented to a neighbor the previous day refused to adopt its new home and ran mewing after her. She tried to drive it back, but the child cried so hard for it that she was forced to pick it up and restore it to the baby's arms. The professor had preceded her by sev eral blocks. He held a bird cage, partly covered by a newspaper, in one hand, and to the other clung tightly his older son, a boy of four years. 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.