The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-06-27

God, thank The that | live. tlfty-
r,rr wears ago | was at Athens, III the |
class OF Al ard OF the forty-two then
livinc there are nov b"t half a d-Ze1
Jeff Many OF them lived and del and
mad, 70 signs. Some OF t3cm sa"
f~0ub,e and some made good ciL.ZaAs.
c3od husbands and fathers; AMI gust
% history repeats itSCs all along TIC
generations. II grieEed me that Ci%i:
nof a-.ent the centennial and commune
v;;,b the alumni ana rejoice with tie
vouag and feel lonely with the Cd.
Then there is old college and new col
lege. and the chapel and the campus
and the two halls that are still IN
changed. wonder how many hoy
nave occupied the old room that
cose and l lived in for two long yeirs'
saw it in the picture and fe.t like 1t
was still my room. The ai!an;hus
trees (by a misnomer called the tree
of heaven) grew close to our windows
and extended their nauseating odors to
dormitory where we slept, and the boys
all along the line complained, but the
faculty said it would soCn pass away,
and the trees were imported from
China, the Celestial Empire. AID hey
were called the trees Of heaven. So one
dark night the boys mot y got axes
and girdled them and they died AMI
went to heaven in China. where they
;ame from. For some months roomea
in new college, and so did our tutor,
who was cross and never smiled, for
~ hon
ashes. He wouldent let me not Chess
Howard play on the flute after study
hours at night, nor let Ben Moseley nor
Dick Farmer play on the fiddle. Said 1t
annoyed him, and so some OF the boys
(not y got some old cannon balls from
The armory and away in the dead hour
Of night, when deep sleep falleth upon
A man or a tutor, they rolled a SIX
FOUNDER along the long hall 200 feet
light by his door, which was about
midway, When it got to the other end
another boy slipped out and rolled IT
back again, and the rolling and rumb-
ling was kept up for time until there
happened just what they thought
would happen. The tutor had opened
i crack in his door, and when he hsard
the ball coming for the fifth tine he
slipped out suddenly and stopped it
with his foot and picked it up and took
{ in his room. That was just what the
boys mot y wanted, for they had
another one in the FIRE getting hot. In
lue time they took it in the shovel AMI
sent it slowly down the hally, and it
stopped not far from his door. Quickly
he stepped out and the light from his
room showed him the ball. He se.zed
t with his right hand and straightway
dropped at and used some language
that was unb2coming. and retreated to
his room. The next day his hand was
lied up in white handkerchief, which
was a kind Of flag OF truce, for he was
much more considerate to us and seem
ed to like music. | never perpetrated
much mischief while in college, but
was an apt scholar to look on and en-
10y all the fun. Chess Howard was an
expert, and could play ball better than
anybody, especially hot cannon ball.
Chess came to see us some time ago
and after while asked me and my wife
to give them some music. And so she
seated herself at the piano and | took
nv flute and asked what he would Ike.
And he said play that good old piece
that we used to call "Sallie Baxter
when we went serenading in Athens.
So we played it, and before we were
aware of it Chess had slipped his own
flute out of his pocket and was footing
along behind me. Sallie was our col
lege sweetheart, but we dident get her,
for a Bird flew there and she followed
him off to Baltimore and is living there
vet. But We never thought Of suicide.
But forbear. 1t is sweet and it's sad
TO recall the memories Of As, '46 and
AZ. and I would have felt lest and
lonely in Athens. 1t was college then.
II is a great university now. and many
changes have come over it, and We ola
veterans have to keep up win the pro-
,ession whether we like the modern
methods or not. They have got inter-
collegiate baseball in the curriculum
nav and | reckon it is to keep the Do!s
from committing suicide. 1t dlverts
heir minds from the strain OF trig-
onometry and calculus and comic sec
ions. Progress is the order of the day
in colleges as in everything else. one
hundred and fifty years ago old DR..
Johnson said 70 Boswell, In our great
schools there is less flogg!ng than for-
merly. Consequently, less is learned
here. So what the boys get at one END
and they lose at the ner.' NOW there
IS no aogging anywhere, and the teach
e-s and professors are thankful II they
escape it from the boys.-Bill Arp IN
Atlanta Constitution.