text:  If my graver companions from the calm dignity of collegiate office deign to look back upon the evenings thus spent with two undergraduates in a Christmas vacation when unbending from the formal and conventional dulness of term and its duties they interchanged with us anecdote and jest and mingled with the sparkling imaginations of youth the reminiscences of riper years--I am sure they will have no cause to regret their share in those not ungraceful saturnalia even though they may remember that the hour at which we separated was not always what we used to call "canonical