Decidedly one of the most important scenes, enacted at College, is to be witnessed on the day the session breaks. The whole week till Thursday evening is occupied within in exeminations. At twelve o'clock all are free, and if it were not beneath the dignity of Collegians, such a shout of joy would arise as would make the Campus ring and shake the old South [Building] to its very foundations As it is however, nought is heard but the hum of a hundred voices, engaged in preparing for departure, students handing over cash to servants, porter shouldering trunks, horses snorting, wheell a rouns ratling, carryalls [rumling], an all kinds of vehicles from the open wagon and prancing saddle-hire to the four horse coach of Buffaloe, flying through the Campus and recieving their loads of students and trunks. In fact a crowd of Chapel Hill students have about as much baggage as a pack of ladies; Leather trunks and hairtrunks, clothes bags and saddlebags, boxes, bundles and all the thousand conveniencies that have been made for storing away a man's worldly possessions.

It is somewhat wonderful to the uninitiated, how extremely eager all are [to] leave this spot, sacred to the, muses and Apollo. Here our habits time is our own; we are masters of our actions, without any one to say go hither or thither. Every thing is done by clock-work; Two days of the week belong to us and we in consideration of all this only to get some ten or twelve lessons, which, assuredly, is not a hard task upon the majority of College, who suffer the time to slip by, without knowing what authors they are perusing. We have no thought for the morrow, our purses are supplied by other hands, and all that the greater part of us have to do, is to sit by a blazing fire, with a pipe dangling in our mouths and listen to anecdotes, keen remarks,witty sayings &c; which are so congenial to the atmosphere of C. Hill. But notwithstanding all this, the whole of College, even the insignificant Freshman, manifests the most utmost eagerness to be gone. I know of no reason, to which this is attributate unless it be the passion for novelty, which so universally distinguishes youth. Suffice it to say, however, that such is the case and not one stays who can get away, and the twelve o'clock bell has no sooner sent forth its last peal, than every soul is for jumping into his conveyance and leaving post-haste. Last vacation, I remember well was a dreary time. The snow lay one or two inches deep, just sufficient to makes us feel all its bad effects with non of it's good. Here was a carryall with four freshmen, dear, innocent, unsuspecting, unsophistocated, little creatures, in glorious ignorance, whether they were disapproved or not, and congratulating one another upon escaping a star in the catalogue. One of the little darling was in a state of forgetfulness, and the other three fast approaching that desired condition. All going home, where they ought to have been long ago, and . At the [corner] of the South [Building], was a carriag, composed of a mixture, full of fulln, all ready to make a jovial trip. No oppressive cares weighed down their breasts; no fluttering heart beatings struck against their ribs, like the old bell clapper against the side of the bell, when rudely swiv[l]ed from one side to the other by some midnight prowler. Free, lighthearted, independent of the faculty. Suppose we take a peep inside the buildings; here is one man packing up with all of his might, bothered to death by a crowd of friends standing round determined to get a shake of the hand before he leaves