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influence in my just behalf. "Don't count on it," the old man chuckled."I'm Ira Hector."
I denied it.
"Of course I am, you great ninny. Everybody knows the Old Man of the Mall."
Alas, he did quite fit the impression of her uncle I'd got from Anastasia's narrative, and I was the more appalled at such petty avarice in the man on campus. But I challenged him to prove his identity without a card.
He blinked like an old testudinate Peter Greene. "You should be a major, Goat-Boy!" However, it was his notoriety in the , he told me, that rendered his ID-card superfluous and induced him to sell it.Everybody recognized him, he was sorry to say, and pestered him for handouts which they no more deserved than did those young beggars the free tuition provided them by Chancellor Rexford's new grant-in-aid program. Creeping Student-Unionism was what it was, to Mr, Hector's mind: the tyranny of the have-nots, of the ignorant over the schooled. The only thing to be said for the Administration's reckless giveaways was that, the untutored being always (and justly) more
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