Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-21
Here and There.

AASA0 oA0 AAOAO.
The Freshmen at Colby will have their
class supper at the Bangor House on Friday
evening the Goth, at o. 30. A fine menu will
be prepared for them. The post-prandial
exercises will consist of toasts, a poem,
speeches. etc, and the occasion. will undoubt
eddy be very pleasant one for the members
of the class WAC are soon to shed their
verdancy and enter upon the true sophomore
dignity.
Now that the colleges are so soon to send
forth another crop of A. b. s into the various
walks of life we would express the hope that
the college dude will not figure very ex-
tensively in their ranks. There is certain
to be spoiled not by-but as re-
suit ola collegiate training. These
fellows during their stay in college
are obliged to bottle up considerable asi :
ninty. If it showed itself there, it would
be bounced upon and ridiculed and guyed in
that rasping manner peculiar to college men
for the majority of college students are al
ways practical and sensible young men. So
during his course the college dude is-to a
certain extent-boltled, but when the gradua.
ton is over and the dude tucks his $500
sheepskin under his arm, very great change
comes over the spirit of his dreams He
straightway assumes an air which seems to
say-this great, green rolling mundane
sphere is mine-He Immediately begins to
drop great chunks of information around in
an off hand manner and to settle with a few
emphatic words questions long at issue. He
walks the streets of his native town with an
air which might lead a stranger to suppose
that he owned most of its real estate. He
runs the parties, and gets up
a few on his own account just to show the
dear girls" how such affairs should be man
aged and to cause the 'other fellows" to turn
green with envy. BY and by the dude is seen
during the hot days meandering about the
streets in a nice new tennis suit and carrying
a tennis racket under his arm. Poor youth
he doesn know how contemptuous are the
mental ratings given him by the veterans in life
common sense make the business of the COM
munity, and carry on its material interests.
As matter of fact there is no place in the
wide, wide world, where the typical college
dude is of any earthly use unless it be to pose
as sign in front of a clothing store. For
this reason we say, it is to be
hoped that the classes which
graduate from our colleges will not contain
a single dude" We trust they will be ac-
tive workers in the community that they will
be young men whose collegiate training has
only given them additional strength to cope
with the affairs of life. There is always a
chance in the world-indeed there is de-
mand-for educated workers. Young men
who are not afraid of industry, and who are
ready and willing to bear their share of the
burden and heat of the day will always find
an opening. There is no chance for human
butterflies. Men must be useful in order to
be influential, and to gain the confidence and
esteem of their fellow men. Energy is worth
good deal more than style. And a strong
common sense will always find market
whether it be clothed with the graces of 4Es-
theticism or not
A Machias man while near Wesley last
week saw a fawn alongside the road and
captured it without any trouble, bringing it
home where he kept it in box in the stable.
1t was apparently not more than two days old
and was nearly white. 1t has taken kindly
to captivity, drinking milk from a bottle and
displaying considerable affection for its own
er. A great many persons went to see the
little animal.