Wickersham tried to stem the current, but in vain.

It was a tidal wave.

Ferdy Wickersham faced defeat, and he could not stand it.

He suddenly abandoned college, and went off, it was said, with a coryphee.

His father and mother did not know of it for some time after he had left.
Mr.Wickersham received the first intimation of it in the shape of a draft which came to him from some distant point.