Excerpt from The Pillar of Fire: A Profane Baccalaureate Over lawn and grove, on weather-mellowed wall and marble portico all gloriously streams the sunshine of young summer. It is June on the campus. Under elms and maples the greenswards, smooth as satin, are quartered to 'scutcheons of shadow and shields of golden blazonry. The brick walls of the old dormi tories glow a rich, warm red amid greenery, and high above the masses of billowy foliage turret and spire stand gleaming white at proud salute to the sun. Stilled are the shouts from the playing fields; empty is the lecture room. The book is closed, the paper written. There has been pealing of bells across the slumber ing peace of the morning - grave voices in throats of bronze to call you hither. Their tongues, too, are stilled. Only from the ivies. 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.