Excerpt from Rambles in Old College Towns IT was late in April when we decided to begin our little tour of the Old college towns here in the East by starting for Virginia. We'd neither of us ever been farther into the Old Dominion than Mount Vernon, which is not SO much part of a State as part of history, so the distance beckoned with all the allurement of the new. Then there was the hope of warmth and sun, powerful magnets in this cold, grey, unwilling war Spring, as reluctant to mobilise as the most pernicious pacifist in a House and Senate just then struggling with the Conscription Bill. 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.