The Bliss of Academic Life

   "All hail, unvex'd with care and strife,
The bliss of Academic life;
Where kind repose protracts the span,
While Childhood ripens into man;
Where no hard parent's dreaded rage
Curbs the gay sports of youthful age;
Where no vile fear the Genius awes
With grim severity of laws..."

-  from a speech of Dick Hairbrain, in John Trumbull, The Progress of Dulness, 1773