Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-10-21
HHRVEy'S ROMHN6E.

IT WAS during his freshman year at
Harvard that first became acquaint-
ed with Harvey. He had come to col
lege from a thriving western town,
where his father was a banker and
leading citizen. Harvey was remark
able fellow in many ways. In the first
place, he was one of the handsomest
fellows have ever known. He was
possessed of rare talents, and bore upon
his face the unmistakable stamp of
good breeding.
And yet, when first knew Harvey,
he was freshman in every sense of the
word. You could hardly call him green;
he had seen quite bit of the world,
and society, too, for all that, but it was
Of such as boy sees under the chaper-
onage of fond and indulgent mother.
His experiences, while quite varied in
their nature, were of tame variety, SO
you will not deem it strange that when
he arrived at Harvard, with an allow
-anee of $500 per month and no chap
.erons but sophs and seniors, a new
world was opened to him.
Like all freshmen of his type, Harvey
fell in with a fast set, joined swell
fraternity and went right to the bad.
And what winding and mellihuous
path his satanic majesty has provided
for his college deyotees. OF course Har-
Eey's apartments were the best in the
city. His dog had whipped everything
that had been pitted against him and
his wine suppers to the fast set of which
he was a part were the talk and envy
of every cheap Cholly man N the col
1ege.
Long before the end of the first term
Harvey was an acknowledged king of
the bloods. He was a greatly changed
lad; all that simple charm and frank
mess that had marked him when he
came were gone. His manner, talk and
dress had all changed, and now con-
formed strictly to the ideas of the set
of which he had become part. At the
junior hop occurred little incident
which was to mark an epoch in the af-
fairs and life of the freshman, and, in
fact, to give birth to this story. The
junior hop is the social event of the
year at Harvard, and at all great Amer
lean colleges, for all that. This is the
high tide of the year when the fresh
man sends home for his girl to show her
something of college life and to show
her how important he has become in
one term. A few months before a
beautiful young lady, the daughter of
one of the Back Bay millionaires, had
made her debut in Boston society. Bes-
sic Hill was so refined and so charm
ing that it was but short time before
all of the young men, both in Boston
and in Cambridge, were wild about her
She was a model of beauty, but to stop
here and say no more would be doing
her great injustice, for she was not
only. possessed of all the other quail
ties necessary to make her a type of
perfect womanhood. Of course she
would be at the hop, and every fellow
.gho had not already met her had set
his heart upon an introduction. Every
swell fraternity in the college attended
in a body, and every big fraternity man
individually did all in his power to
bring Bessie Hill to his booth and
make her a part of his Greek letter
CIRCLE. Harvey looked that night as I
,had never seen him look before. With
the efforts of nature and the tailor
combined he was by far the handsom-
est man in the ballroom. He was in
PRODUCED to Bessie Hal; it was Greek
meet Greek. They exchanged glances;
Harvey bowed low; she extended her
hand, while the polite audience of stu
dents mammas and sisters held their
breath in establishment. Never before
had Bessie Hill extended her hand to
any new acquaintance. She had been
with Harvey but short time when
the cold and steel-like glitter left her
ewes and her cheeks were suffused with
-the rose of natures rarest red.
They danced together. Harvey was
perfect terpsichorean. They glided off
TO the conservatory. Harvey's heart
heat faster than usual and his bosom
xwelled with pride. But surely he had
rood reason to feel proud, for he had
5y his side the most admired woman of
ali Boston. The freshman had won the
greatest of all social triumphs. 1t cost
him a wine supper at Harvard and no
little notoriety in Boston. Their meet
Ding at the ball had caused quite SEN
mation. Che daily papers reviewed his