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is an uncomfortable silence. Then Townsend begins vaguely) It certainly removes the burden of the years from my shoulders to come out to the old college in the Spring and live the old days over in memory and hobnob with some of the old-timers who were young-timers with me. It becomes more difficult every year I find. All the old landmarks are disappearing one by one.

JACK--(perfunctorily) Yes, even in my time there have been great changes.

TOWNSEND--(very palpably talking to gain time) It gives me a painful heart-throb every time I come back and look for some old place and find it renovated or torn down.

JACK--(shortly) I can well understand that.

TOWNSEND--You don't realize what this college comes to mean to you in after years; how it becomes inseparably woven into the memories of one's lost youth until the two become identical.

JACK--(impatiently) Yes, I suppose so.

TOWNSEND--(more and more vaguely) Happiest days of