The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-02-22
A COLLEGE CALL.

lege lately appeal to me very strangely"
said a Harvard man. "Man is of so
small part in it all A senior year ex-
perience of mine will illustrate.
"When met the girl, didn't know
she was a college girl. The front of her
waist was decorated with crazy shaped
jewelry Of various Sorts but l was not
sufficiently enlightened at the time to
know that they denoted the feminine
life academic. She was a mighty nice
girl. She WASH t afraid to wet her bath
ing suit. She did t mind chasing around
in the mud after her own fiddler crabs,
and, more wonderful still, she wouldn't
even shudder when they crunched as she
ran the hook through them. She was no
stern, analytical, cold blooded thing
either. You ought to have heard her
yell when the fish bit; also, she knew
enough when her hand was squeezed to
squeeze back. / had very interesting
summer of it. In the course of the sea-
son learned, Of course, that she was
Smith girl, just as | learned where she
lived and who her folks were and what
her first name was and that she WASH It
engaged to anybody (and never meant
to be) and all that sort of thing. The
Smith part didn't bother me at all I
began to feel that she was type. The
higher education was the thing woman
had needed all these years to make her
a little more rather than a little less
than the angels.
Sat the end of the season my goose
was cooked all right, but lacked sand.
wanted time to think it over | also
had sneaking idea that perhaps after
we had been separated for awhile the
girl wouldn't be SO all fired indifferent
to personal considerations and my pass
ing tentative expressions of interest in
our future existence. l asked her if I
could come up to Northampton to see
her and if | couldn't take her to the
Yale-Haryard football game at Spring
field. She fairly grabbed at the chance
to go to the game She had never been
to Springfield game she said, except
with an Amherst man, and that, of
course, didn't count 1t would be too
awfully jolly for any use to go with
Harvard man.
81 suggested that I would like to go
over to Northampton week or two be-
fore the game. OF course she said l
must. Just at the time of the game
there were so many men in the chapel
every morning that there was no partic-
ular glory in having one there. But
about two or three weeks before the
game it would be glorious to have a
real Harvard man in chapel all by his
lonesome.
Somehow this sort Of response was
not altogether satisfying, but l was too
enthusiastic to inquire too curiously. In
the fullness of elapsed time l don't
mind telling you that I had some pretty
definite plans about that visit to North
ampton. In meditative moments had
pleasing ideas about certain condolences
would make to the boys before 1 ap
peared with the girl at the game.
81 went to Northampton. arrived
on Thursday evening. l went to the
cottage where she lived 1 waited half
an hour before she came down. Then
she appeared with her hat ON.
LII 81 E1eaQ gOu We COluSJ n446 ndlus
and I'm SO sorry that have voice
club meeting to attend toll The presi-
dent is sick, and I'm the vice president,
so / really have to go. I'm really awful
ly late now. You may walk over with
me if you like.
sit was about three minutes walk.
She told me in that time how to come
to chapel the next morning.
81 went back to the Norwood and re-
tired to the little box in the basement
that they could call a cafe and con-
templated things. After awhile the
things contemplated became less
gloomy / met two Amherst men down
there and told them my experience and
disappointment They looked at each
other and laughed good deal and said
that it was rather strange, considering
that l was not an Amherst man. They
were rather bitter about it and not alto
gether polite, and went to bed.
81 went to chapel in the morning.
The girl was waiting for me liz the
vestibule. was looked over imperson-
ally by 800 or more young women as
they came in, also when they went out
Then l was told to hurry away like
good boy and come back after dinner,
say, about o'clock gently intimated
that II hours in Northampton was
lonely prospect. She was awfully sorry,
of course, but there was an especially
important basket ball practice that aft
ernoon. If she staid away, she wouldn't
be allowed to play in the match game
the next day. Might 1 come to watch
the practice? Good gracious, no! Men
were never allowed except at match
games, and then only the very Oldest
and marriedest mem bers of the faculty.
81 went over to Amherst and saw
some fellows knew over there. The
man l knew best was going to have
beautiful time in his rooms that night.
The window seat bulged with beer bot
ties. He wanted me to stay but re-
gretfully broke away and went back to
Northampton. / reached the cottage at
1865. The girl was in the reception
room waiting for me.
Goodness, but you are lateP said
she. I came very near going without
waiting for you. Astronomy lecture this
morning was postponed until tonight,
so that we could have the real stars,
you know. I'm sorry, but of course it
ism my fault. know you don't want
to wander around town tonight, SO ]
have asked my roommate to come down
and talk to you.
"She went up into the hall and called
her roommate, who was short and glob-
ular and wanted to discuss Kant in re-
lation to the future of woman. She
wanted to know also what that dear
Professor James of Harvard was like
and whether had ever heard him ex-
plain what he meant by certain passages
in his blamed old textbook. She went
to her room and brought down the text
book to show exactly what she meant.
After an hour and half | fed to the
cafe of the Norwood.
Next morning | went to chapel
again, as had been ordained by the
evanescent young woman before she
trotted away to look at the stars. Then
she went away to the basket ball match
game. She said that if l wanted to walk
down by the gymnasium could have
lots of fun hearing them cheer. thank
ed her. She told me to come around at
about o'clock and we would go for a
trolley ride to Florence. l didn't go