Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-04-01
A COLLEGE CALL.

"The stories printed about Smith col.
lege lately appeal to me very strangely"
said a Harvard man. "Man is of 90
small a part in it all. A senior year ex-
perience of mine will illustrate.
"When l 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 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 shuddor when they orunched as she
ran the hook through them. She was no
stern, analytical, GOLD bloodod 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. I had a very interesting
summer Of it. In the course Of the sea.
SOL I learned, Of course, that she was a
Smith girl, just as l learned where she
lived and who her folks were and what
her first name was and that she wasn't
engaged to anybody (and never meant
to beg and all that sort Of thing. The
Smith part didn't bother me at all. l
began to feel that she was a 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 goos-
was cooked all right. but | lacked sand.
! wanted time to think it over. I 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. l asked her if I
could come up to Northampton to see
her and if l 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 been
to a 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 60 with a
Harvard man.
II suggested that I would like to 60
over to Northampton a 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 n there. But
about two or three weeks before the
game it would be glorious to have q
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 | don't
mind telling you that / had some pretty
definite plans about that visit to North
ampton. In meditative moments I had
pleasing ideas about certain condolences
I would make to the boys before l ap
peared with the girl at the game.
II went to Northampton. arrived
on q Thursday evening. l went to the
cottage where she lived. ! waited half
an hour before she came down. Then
abe appeared with her hat o
"'I'm 90 glad you've come, she said,
and I'm 60 sorry that / have q voice
club meeting to attend tol The presi.
dent is sick, and I'm the vice president,
20 I really have to 60. I'm really awful.
~ late now. You may walk over with
me II You like
1T was about three minutes walk.
She told me In that time how to come
to chapel the next morning.
~ went back to the Norwood and re.
tired to tho little box In the basement
that they could call q cafe and con-
templated things. After awhile the
things contemplated became less
gloomy. ! met two Amherst men down
there and told them my experience aud
disappointment. They looked at each
other and laughed ! good deal and said
that It was rather strange, considering
that I was not an Amherst man. They
we're rather bitter about Il and mo Alto
gether polite, and I went to bed.
II went to chapel In the morning.
The girl wal waiting for me In the
vestibule I was looked over imperson.
ally BY 600 or more young women a
they came In, also when they went out.
Then / was told to hurry away like 3
good boy and come back after dinner.
say, about 8 O'Clock. ! gently intimated
that IL hours In Northampton was :
lonely prospect. She was awfully sorry.
VI oourye, but there was an especially
important basket ball practice that aft.
srnoon. Il she staid away, abe wouldn't
- allowed 70 play N the match game
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