The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-18
THOSE COLLEGE BOYS
Sets Hill Arp to Thinking About the
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boys, 1863 Yale college boys on I. lark in
New Iork-painting the town red,
hooting, bowling and yelling in the
hotels and saloons and in the streets
like lot of escaped lunatics, running
over the police and the people, and
making everybody get out oftheir way.
1t must have been an awful time,
according to the newspapers, and 1
had L letter from q friend who lives
there, and he says that nothing like it
Was ever seen in pandemonium. AS \
Dutchnan said to me, "It was Il wiot,
a WOW, 4 wumpus." And it was all
because they had beaten tue Princeton
boys ut 4 game of football. Good gra-
c;ous, what glorious victory, what L
grand success, what magnificent and
heroic deed They actually beat the
other fellows kicking Il bail, and it
took 1863 drunks to complete the victory.
Last year there was shameful riot at
Harvard; and Il hotel burned up. What
is the matter with the northern col
lcges? We don't have any such carouse-
nIents down South. | know there are
none such in Georgia. Our college boys
don't have any time to run off 800
miles to kick a ball. Our Oxford boys
don't dare to go forty miles to Atlanta
unless it is with special permit to
have their photographs taken rs class
some Saturday morning, and they
have to 60 back on the evening train.
l would like. to peruse Dr. Bogg's
countenance if the Athens boys We're
| to ask for u weeks recess to 90 some
where and kick q ball. What kind Of
education are these Yale boys getting
maybe they have just joined the
gymnastic department and nothing
else. After they have gotten their
diplomas | would like to ask them a
few questions in mathematics. would
like to know if forty boys can kick an
eight-inch ball 200 hundred yards in
forty minutes, on basis Of ten drinks
to the boy, how many drinks will it
take to enable fifty boys to kick a
seven-inch ball 300 yards in thirty
minutes. If ball kicking is to be their
bus. ness they ought to know how to do
that sum. Heaven help us when these
boys are to take our places. The whole
North seems to be tainted with this
same liberty of education-this go as
you please, do as you please and study
when you please sort Of business. If
the old man is likely to die and leave
! 100000 to the college his boys must
be under no restraint. Yale and Har-
ward have got their millions of endow-
meut from their rich alumni and they
want more. l saw it stated the other
day that Harvard had averaged $780,
600 year in bcquests for the last ten
years. Maybe some of the boys are
doing we'll and making good use Of
their time, but wouldeut risk boy
of mine there. wouldent risk a boy
or girl ut any institution North of Phila-
delphia. They are too free and too
fast.
l believe in my heart that the South
will have to save this government
from a wreck; and that duty will be
upon her before the end Of The century.
The morality and conservatism of the
Southern people are right now the safe
guards of the nation. The bad men,
the profiigate and lawless will soon
outnumber the good, honest, laW-abld-
ing people OF the North. overheard q
gOod-looking, finely dressed New York
youth say to Mr.. Hughes, Oh the cars:
Il don't like your town Of Atlanta; a
man has to walk 200 yards to get Il
drink; it is awful tiresome I live OH
Third avenue in New York, and there
are over 300 first-claSs saloons on that
avenue When gentleman wants a
drink there is saloon within. 'ty-feet
Of hIm anywhere on the line"
"Where have you been, Jones" id
I to a fellow-citizen. Said he: II have
been down to the chronological insti-
tute to have some work done for my
mill, and I tell you what is a fact, |
got it done better and quicker and
cheaper than l could have done any
where else. Mine was peculiar and q
particular job, and required skilful
hands. Those boys did it, and they did
it so we'll had to praise them and
thank them. And besides their skill
they are so gentlemanly and courteous
in their department, so ready to answer
questions and take heed to suggestions
that it has been pleasure to lie tc
: visit the institution. l wish that l haC
Il boy to send there"
And then I thought about the girls
industrial school that We are building
at Milledgeville, and how quickly il
will be filled when it is finished, anG
how, before many years, those working
girls will be mating with those working
boys, and what an independent team
ii will make in fighting the battle o
life; what contrast to the ball kicker:
and the dudes and butterflies that infrst
our cities and Go nothing out pay calls
and receive calls, and read novels il
bed, ard get 10 breakfast at 10 o.
clock, and change their apparel three
or four times u day. have but little
patience with these college girls who
: skim through ana read composition
that so;ucbodv elsO wrote, and carry
/ home 4 painting that the teacher
! painted, and then begin to circulate anc
visit their classmates, and when they
are nOs or the 90, their classmates are