_Courteous acknowledgment is here made to the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, in which these papers first saw the light._ Mamma left for home this afternoon. As I want to be perfectly truthful in my diary, I suppose I must confess that before she actually went away I sometimes thought I should be rather relieved when she was no longer here. Mamma has a fixed idea that I came to college for the express purpose of getting my feet wet by day, and sleeping in a draught by night. She began the furnishing of my rooms by investing in a pair of rubber boots,--the kind you tie around your waist with a string. The clerk in the shop asked her if I was fond of trout-fishing, and she explained to h…
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