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Sunday broke stolid and respectable , and even the sea seemed to mumble and complain , so they returned to Princeton via the Fords of transient farmers , and broke up with colds in their heads , but otherwise none the worse for wandering . Even more than in the year before , Amory neglected his work , not deliberately but lazily and through a multitude of other interests . Co-ordinate geometry and the melancholy hexameters of Corneille and Racine held forth small allurements , and even psychology , which he had eagerly awaited , proved to be a dull subject full of muscular reactions and biological phrases rather than the study of personality and influence . That was a noon class , and it always sent him dozing . Having found that `` subjective and objective , sir , '' answered most of the questions , he used the phrase on all occasions , and it became the class joke when , on a query being levelled at him , he was nudged awake by Ferrenby or Sloane to gasp it out . Mostly there were parties -- to Orange or the Shore , more rarely to New York and Philadelphia , though one night they marshalled fourteen waitresses out of Childs ' and took them to ride down Fifth Avenue on top of an auto bus . They all cut more classes than were allowed , which meant an additional course the following year , but spring was too rare to let anything interfere with their colorful ramblings .