midnight
He went up the fine old avenue , past the fine new buildings , in a daze ; and when our good old Prexy , who had him skinned forty ways for dignity , shook hands with him and handed him a little talk that was a saturated solution of Latin , he could n't even say `` most extraordinary . '' You can realize how far gone he was . Some of the boys got hold of the marshal that day and told him the story . He laughed from four P. M. until midnight , with only three stops for refreshments . The Reverend Pubby Diggs stayed three days as the guest of the Faculty and he did n't get up nerve enough in all that time to talk business . We saw him at chapel where he could n't see us , and he looked like a man who had suddenly discovered , while falling out of his aeroplane , that somebody had removed the earth and had left no address behind . His baggage mysteriously appeared at his room in the hotel on the first night , and when he left he had n't recovered consciousness sufficiently to inquire where it came from .