noon
`` I 'm not enough of a sensualist really ; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful : women , spring evenings , music at night , the sea ; I do n't catch the subtle things like ` silver-snarling trumpets . ' I may turn out an intellectual , but I 'll never write anything but mediocre poetry . '' They rode into Princeton as the sun was making colored maps of the sky behind the graduate school , and hurried to the refreshment of a shower that would have to serve in place of sleep . By noon the bright-costumed alumni crowded the streets with their bands and choruses , and in the tents there was great reunion under the orange-and-black banners that curled and strained in the wind . Amory looked long at one house which bore the legend `` Sixty-nine . '' There a few gray-haired men sat and talked quietly while the classes swept by in panorama of life . *****