St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-22
COLLEGE CHIPS.
A Spicy Aggregation of News and
Gossip Of Hamline University.

Is there anything quite so characteristic
and distinct from all other places as a college
towns? For the three sleepy summer months
1t crawls through the caterpiller state OF its
ak or hammer, and then is transformed in
the twlnkllng of an eye to the bright, busy
butterfly. The streets are thronged with
merry young people. and the specialized
noses and bent forms tell of the frequency
with which the midnight oil is burned IN
digging out Greek roots and battling with
those redouDtable warriors. ''Trig" and
.Syke," while bright eyes reveal the fact that
higher education does not mean all fun left
out. Two by two they wander down to that
retreat, frog pond, where all Hamline senti-
mentality is INDUCED in; the boys talk of
base ball and the girls plan midnight feasts
in the ladies' hall and instruct the new ones
in the ways of Guiding the vigilant eye of the
matron.
There was once a plan discussed of label
ing the members of the different classes be-
etluse.one young man had made the awful
mistake of asking a senior lady to which one
OF thg preparatory classes she belonged; but
to those who keep their wits sharpened it as
easy to distinguish as petween a farmers nag
and Maud S. The senior goes about with the
general air of knowing it ali and is frequently
mistaken for one of the professors, while the
prep and freshie have an atmosphere of new
ness Inch only time can dissipate. Then
thereas the theological student, who wears
his thread bare Prince Albert buttoned
bibAS@ up W Aio I'LL oAA plSSSiit0 thC 6Sh-
eral appearance OF keeping in de middle OBJ
de road. and that anomaly, the special, who
comes because he wants a good time and
goes away because he finds what wiser heads
have told him, that pleasure is d corallary of
work
Every girl who has entered the college this
fall has been clothed i'll plaid and all are
made up on the bias. They vary from the
Royal Stuart of brilliant reds and the blue
and green of the Mcdonald to the quiet
black and white, and in size from the minute
pin check to the one where a single plaid is
sufficient to cover the fat woman i'll the
is not in the least like any ones else, but
that does not alter the fact that the young
man who has found it difficuft to remember
faces where he meets SO many new ones, and
SO has trained his eye for color in regard to
his inamorata's gown, has been sorely per-
picked by the multiplicity of plaid dresses.
'Plaids to the right of him, plaids to the left
OF him, plaidS III front OF him, Was there a
man dismayeds' We think there were many.
E. E. McCrea, 'SS, who has been news
gatherer on one of our city papers since
graduation. will leave on Wednesday for
New York city, where he will take a post
graduate course in political science in the
Columbia university and also report on one
of the dailieS. He Will visit relatives in Can
ada on his way.
Miss Myrtle Allen. d former member of the
junior class and daughter of Rev. Il. F. Allen.
OF Minneapolis, will be married next Friday
CNeuilS ~ EIduk l.. LuQQeI. WHO Is eIlSdEeu
i'll the nursery business in Montana. They
will spend the winter in West Superior.
W. E. Brink left for his home in Ainona
this week. after seeing that the college started
all right. He will enter a business college in
Dubuque. Ia. and will he very much missed
in Hamline social and musical circles, where
he has always been a leader.
The Amphyetyan society elected officers
Friday night as follows: President, G.. n.
Empey: vice president, {. P. Stevens; secre-
tQrU 4 III Rn-nDT mi Two n ~, 2 Z
Ii. Tasker; P. Il. Stoyers and A. j. Wallace.
Rev. j. E. Lathrop, h has been pastor
of one OF the Methodist churches in Duluth
the past year. has returned 10 the unworthy
and will complete the course.
Miss The odore irwin and Gordon Camp
bell, of Detroit, visited friends Tuesday on
their way to the Northwestern university at
Evanston. Ill.
Mrs Carrie Knox-Godfrey, of Wabasha,
visited her daughter, Miss Maud Knox, who
Will spend the winter with her cousin, Mrs.
Simonton.
Miss II. L.. Shoemaker. preceptress Of the
college, has been i'll during the week, but
will probably be able to hear her classes on
Monday.
Mrs. j. B. Seager. a delegate to the W. c..
T. I. convention from st. James, Is visiting
her daughter. Miss Gertrude NJ. Seager. 80.
Miss Laura A. Knott, 81, who is teaching
in The State Normal school, at st. Cloud, is
the guest of Miss Chase over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. +. hlngsland, OF Mime
apolis, visited Mrs. Kingsland's brother.
Claude S~outhwick. Oh, Wednesday.
Mr.. Terry. of Minneapolis, accompanied
his daughters. Misses Sarah and Francis
Terry on their entering school.
Miss Hope Dunn, OF Winnabago City,
daughter, of hon. A. C. Dunn, has been the
guest o f Miss las Coffin.
Mrs. jerks, of saltwater, accompanied her
dauphter, Miss Genevra jerks, Oh her return
10 school.
Miss Marion Wellington, of ST. Paul, was
the. guest of old school rlends on Tuesday.
j. IL Powell, a Sophomore at the State uni
versity, was a cam pus visitor on Friday.