The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-07
SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES
Hon. A. c. Eindemlth's "reminiscences
Of Days at Cornell University.
Hjslmer Bjarth Boyesen, the Author - Vice
President Russell and Jesse Grant-An
Absent Minded Professor.

evening ran across Mr.. A. G. LIndemuth,
of Richmond, who was q leading member
Of the last Legislature. It was at the Bates
House. and the conversation drIfted TO col
tege days, in the course of which he related
BONE interesting "reminiscences. Mr.. Linde-
nnth was o student az Cornell University,
New York.
aside from the educational facilities
efforded by such an institution" saId he.
81 would not exchange my college expert
snee and it's pleasant memories for all the
time and money expended. could l have
them back again. The gathering and
mingling together of a thousand young
men with active brains and ready wits,
intent upon q common purpose, Is q
peculiar and lasting experience to each one
OF them. There is an education to
be obtained ct colleges and uni
versitIes not written in books. and
not TO be gotten by study. IL is
the education which comes from the fric-
zion OF mind with mind. of disposition
with dispositioD. OF interest with interest
Inc mental and physical rivalrIes brighten
the wits anc quicken the circulation. Ev-
erything Is interesting. and almost every
thing has u ludIcrous side.
INV AShA oFO NO"A
students will resort TO to escape q hard les
son- l was, for a long time. q student In
German, under. Hjslmar Hjorth BoyeseD.
She ~eil-know anthor and writer for Har-
pers. Scribner's and other leading maya
zines. Mr.. BOyesen is g Norwegian-and.
by the way. | notice that few people know
how 10 pronounce his FIRST Hjalmsr
Hjorth are pronounced as e spelled YAH
mar Yortb.' lie is one of the finest users
OF the English language that l have ever
heard talk. not even making any l~iowan
7or his being q foreigner. but comparing
MIN with tie finest American and Englls h
rwrIters. He - fluent. tiOrtd aud uses the
choicest Anglo Saxon. L think 1 have
beard but one man more tiorId than ne, and
shat was Felix Adler. the celebrated ORR
entail scholar. OF New York city.
boy essen Is rather below the medium
sized man. with q head OF light. curly hair.
kblue eyes. q very falr complexion, red
scheeks and lips a deep vermilion. Like all
rNorwegIans reared among the mountains
fhnd lords of scandinavia. he Is an intense
lover OF nature. very at
was then unmarried He had written
rGurmar.' "A NOTseman's PIlgTimage.' etc.,
and was then engaged on his Life of
Getbe,' and Lie of Schiller We all
knew his weakness. and when the lesson
bid fair TO develop many difficulties
or some necessary college diversion had
snterfered with a proper familiarity with
sfhe passage some one OF the class would
t~cunnIngly lead the way OIL into some love
episode IN the life of the author-Gethe or
sSchiller, as it happened to be. It needed
but little III ore than D suggestion or
. sober little inquiry to excite the
seemed to fire him. The more be
talked the more absorbed he became,
and, If possible. the redder his cheeks and
lips turned. He would pace back and forth
in front of his rostrum, completely carried
away with his enthusiasm IN the story. He
talked fiuently. using the choicest language
and simple but exceedingly sweet and
fresh imagery. Each story WAS like q de-
lIghtful novelette,. bright from the press.
If the sober little inquiry was well and
s~entimentally directed, We were usually
safe for the remainder OF that lesson. fol-
generally In the midst OF his interesting
narrative. ding-dong would 20 the hour
bell. -
Along sometime in 1874 OF 1915. during
che grasshopper scourge in Nebraska. q rep
resentative of that stricken district cane
10 the university and asked permission to
call q meeting of the students for the pur-
pose of soliciting aid. President Andrew
ID. White was absent in Europe. 1 forget
whether it was while he was minister al
~the court of Berlin. or while making his
Historical and art collection. Vice Pres
kadent Russell, who was In charge,
Twas, a. TIC bsuucut5 III lhuClou, oACctuluk
IL vain and pompess- Six or eight hun.
dred students had collected in one of the
lecture rooms pursuant TO the call. Jesse
Grant, son OF the then dentG Grant. was q
member of the university, and sat near by
An tbs hall, When acting President Rus.
sell got mp to introduce the grasshoppel
' representative. he started 10 apologize fol
calling the meeting. After speaking of the
distress in Nebraska and the request of the
visitor, be went on TO say. and what
could / do as the president of the United
: Sta-Ste-of-of-a great university Al
naturally turned 70 young Grant, and
then TO the a~pologist. and broke out into
IN uprosr.
Tho Hayes boys were students also at the
.samet time. but their father was then sim
Aply Governor of Ohio.
"rhe next day after the grnsshoppel
meeting several of rs rooming in the NORTH
University Building conceived the idea
that an object lesson would be the bes
way Of appealing 10 the generosity of the
Estudsnts. A representative grasshoppel
victim was the scheme. A dummy was i'm
provissd out of the clothes of a RussisI
Nihilistic student who had lied from one OF
ehe Russian universities and entered Cor
nell. but had been there but u snort time
when he was attacked by the chills ant
fever and had as suddenly disappeared
lis room was directly opposite ours. Uni
versities are communistic. If anything. Il
IS understood that students may help them
-elyes to whatever they see-and wha
..ney don't see. may hunt for. Well. W,
0uffed tie dummy ~sparingly, laid hin
upcn y cot of straw. and placed about hin
I'll tre RAGS and other habiliments of dis
- 5 that we could ind. and announced Oh
tne university bulletin board: Died. las
pizhk, the Nebraska gr~asshouDer sufferer
TIL ,sS desiring to view the remains can d,
80 by ealing, between 9 \. NJ. and l p. VI.
ct North Hall, North University Building
ttlrd fioor.'
lit net our fullest expectations. Hun
dreds of students passed through tie Norrl
Hall \. III. Building before the eoDstan
stream of them attracted tue attention O
the faculty. OfcOurse all of Us IN the Nort
Hall were entirely innocent. The mex
morning the identical stiff was danglIn
by the neck from q very tall tree on the col
lege campus- How it got there no one coul
tell. The ingenuity of the faculty. tn
mathematics OF the engineering corps, an
the agility of the janitor were tried tbre
days before the body was returned TO earth
ut was also told of him. and claimed (
be true in every detail. that the professor
who was an old bachelor. had engaged th
company of q lady post graduate. whom b
seemed TO have taken a liking to. to GO {
the theater. The interval IN the eYenin
until it should be time 10 90 he thought b
-oplA oeennu IN writing some mafh,