The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-21

used to be. and then the present set seem
TO think and act very much as we did. 1
can see that there are young men here who
not only think they are real smart, as
some of our set used to, but they have
friends and associates, just as we did. who
think so too; and the way the present
students
DoTE ON THE GIRLS
reminds me so much of our days. Really
they deserve a better fate than is theirs.
Oh! If they had only lived about twenty
years ago, then would they have known
now infinitely better it was to have been
young at that time, than it Is now!
"Ahi in that long ago,
When our hearts were AL aglow
With hopes and fears that none may know"
then were the red-letter days of the world.
But it is not all new to me here-not quite.
[ went down to the college, they call &c the
university now, but ] like the old name
full as well, aud there L met-I write 1t
reverently and with uncovered bead
"Little Wylie" aud "Old Ballantine." All
the boys all the old boys-know whom
mean. The public who don't know the dear
good old men as we do, may, and indeed,
ought to speak of them as the reverend"
Doctor" and Professor" and the like; but
we, who as unruly cpbs were licked into
some sort of shape by them-we who were
moulded and knesded, and scolded and
praised by them; we-bless their
dear old gray heads and their
furrowed faces-will continue to remem-
her them, and to love them and to revere
them ss "Little Wylie'' and "Old Ballsn-
tine" so long as memory lasts. Here they
are, working away each in his fsvorite
chair, the one in the mixed mathematics
and the other digging after Greek notes,
and as I took them by the hands and
looked into their fstherly eyes, / recsived
their kindly greetings. / somehow felt the
old feeling come over me. / think 1t Is
Warner, who in his Backlog Studies tells
of an occasion when he met with friend
of his early years, and was amazed to find
HOW WIDE APART
they had drifted while fighting the battle
of life. too, have observed the same
thing. With how many vowed lasting
friendship during the close OF oul college
persion we kept each others names
bright in our memories. For a time
we wrote to and received at frequent ip-
tervals lengthy and confidential letters,
but not for long. Soon the intervals be-
tween the coming and going of our mis-
sioDs began to widen. They began to as
sumo q less confidential and more formal
tone, and finally they ceased to come or go
at all, and no one cared TO inquire whos was
the fault. Perhaps each shifted the fl ime
to the other, but neither was sorry that 1t
was so. We who had learned the same
lessons, thought the same thoughts, and
held to the same opinions, were already
drifting farther and farther apart, and now,
a ter ~ enty years 'psralion, when g
meet, our meeting not infrequently
b,ings more pain than pleasure.
We soon find that our pursuits,
,ur tastes, our inclinstions, are as
wide sssunder ss tie poes, aud
each silently wonders, possibly grlves at
changes that has come over his old friend.
"Uader what malign Influence must he
nave lived" each thinks OF the other, "to
have taken up WITH such beliefs, and To
have acquired such tastes" Lit le as we
still know how w de gulf Is there bet tween
Us and our college days! / sat down 10
gossip with on over the present, and here
L have whiled away my hour singing Jere-
misds over the past. rll take upthe pres
ent in my next unless / see that another is
doing the work for you. ID. ID. B.
BLOOMINGTON, June Is. 1876.