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contrary, and affirmed to me his confession. So instead, with an aching throat, I briefly rehearsed my objections to the Student-Unionist doctrines of self-suppression and the insignificance of the individual student, and he heard me out impassively.
"I'm not speaking as a New Tammanian or an Informationalist," I declared.
"Really."
"Honestly. I've seen how selfish lifeis, in lots of ways; and anyhow a Grand Tutor doesn't take sides in varsity
"Ah."
But Commencement, I insisted, was always of the individual student, never of studentdom as such -- a mere abstraction, in my opinion -- and so while I condemned selfishness as heartily as he, it seemed to me that its passing opposite was not the unnatural and unfeeling selflessness of the dedicated Student-Unionist, but the warm unselfishness apparent in men like Leonid Andreich Alexandrov, whom I took to be more representative of Nikolayan studentdom than was his stepfather. "Ifelt more sympathy for him than