The Press., 1898-04-21
A COLLEGE CALL.

"The stories printed about Smith col. tege 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 l met the girl. l didn't know she was a college girl. The front of her waist was decorated with crazy shaped jewelry of various sorts, but was not sufficiently enlightened at the time to know that they denoted the feminine life academic. She was a. mighty nice girl. She wasn't afraid to wet her bath ing suit. She did t mud 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. 1 had a very interesting summer of it. In the course of the sea- son I learned. of course, that she was a Smith girl, just as 1 learned where she lived and who her folks were and what her first name was and that she wash { engaged to anybody tand never meant to be) and all that sort of thing. The Smith part didn't bother me at all. began to feel that she was type. The higher education was the thing woman had needed all these years to make her little more rather than a little less than the angels.
 At the end of the season my goose al rio hr1r | wanted time to think it over. also had a 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. asked her if could come up to Northampton to see her and if 1 couldn't take her to the Yale-Harvard football game at Spring field. She fairly grabbed at the chance to go to the game, She had never beer to Springfield game, she said, except with an Amherst man, and that, O course, didn't count. 1t would be toe awfully jolly for any use to go with Harvard man. :,F .. ..~.s.
 II suggested that 1 would like to gc over to Northampton week or two be fore the game. Of course she said must. Just at the time of the game there were so many men in the chape every morning that there was no partio ular glory in having one there. But about two or three weeks before the game it would be glorious to have 8 real Harvard man in chapel all by his lonesome. :.
 Somehow this sort of response wal not altogether satisfying, but was too enthusiastic to inquire too curiously. II the fullness of elapsed time l don't mind telling you that had some pretty definite plans about that visit to North ampton. In meditative moments hao pleasing ideas about certain confidence: I would make to the boys before 1 ap peared with the girl at the game.
 "I went to Northampton. arrived on Thursday evening went to tn, cottage where she lived 1 waited hal an hour before she came"down: TheI she appeared with her hat on.
 "'I'm so glad you we come, she said and I'm so sorry that 1 have a voic' club meeting to attend to! 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 witt me if you like. 5's. s,si4 :.'..'' "It was about three minutes walk She told me in that time how to com, to chapel the next morning. r
 "I went back to the Norwood and re tired to the little box in the basemen that they could call cafe and con templated things After awhile tn
 things contemplated became les gloomy. l met two. Amherst men dowl there and told them.my experience ant disappointment, They looked at eeacl other and laughed a good deal and sait that 1t was, rather strange. considering that was not an Amherst man The,
 were rather bitter about it and not alto
 gether polite. and went to bed -@