The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-21

The Chief Justice of Kansas, Judge
Frank Doster, recently said some things
about the college boy which were not
intended to please that young gentle
man OF his dotins relatives For in
! stance:
I would reform the college student or kiII
/ hiru of know we pretend to d9te on him and
affect 10 believe That he = the hope and first care
I OF the State, hut its lie. We don't. Nobody
{ but his mother does
WHY 30 ! say these hard things about him
Say It because ne Is self-lWDgrt4Ht noiSg. con
ceted- ignorant OF all practical wisdom parts his
/ bsig il the middle. fGuHts his fraternity badge
and school cyiors III offensive, challenging sort
Of vay ii eVeTyb5dy's face and Urauces up street
fright and disgust OF all tlHaid sensitive folk
within sound ! saw nln At the Twentieth Kan
SIS reception, q bigger man than Funston big
ger even Jl5n 6encrat HuEBeS-nl1kIng more
Eoise and taking Up more room than tire whole
procession Glowing everybody cut Of the way.
and drowning the voices " the orators and the
music Of tfe bands with his idi0tic Rock Chalk
Jsv Hawk; Rah, Rah. Rah. Waslllru- raAt
Baker hurraI.' or whatever the internal 81
wash gI5aarlsH l.
Nor have I any spite at the college student
I only think he takes UP too much room and
makes too much noise and costs too much none
and Is too smart in the budding days Of his
career"
There are a good many hard-headed
and Woodworking people in this prac-
teal country who have come 10 much
the same conclusion as Judge Doster-
though some # them express their sen
timents & little more elegantly and
others do not express them at all. Up
10 a certain point nobody minds the col
lege students little ways. In a world
50 full Of grief and toll as this. il IS
rather refreshing to see somebody now
and then having d good time n q joy
Gus and unrestrained way. and showing
it. This the student uuquesti5nabIy
does. When he is happy everybody in
the neighborhOod Is aware Of the fact
He wants them To be aware of IL
Sometimes his happiness results in an
overflow OF enjoyment in which they
share. for if he has any money he Is lib
eraI with it Sometimes il IS merely
cause Of evaporation, as when a party
Of froIicsorne youths demoIish gates and
fences for a bonfire. or lead the farmers
pet cow into the college belfry, OF paint
his favorite horse red
But because the world in general is
amused and indulgent when the cole
Sian lets of his whoops and Frances his
prances, let him not think that the
ability to whOop and prance makes him
admiral Other people can DO that
quite as well as he can, except that
they haven't time. Sooner or later he
win find out that the fact that he has
gone around for four years sporting the
latest fashion in neckwear, devising
Greek college yells. electioneering for
class Offices, and thinking up ways to
dodge regulations, viii not help him
one iota IN mis- fathers leather bust
ness The bald-headed bookkeeper who
eats pie with his knife is ahead cf him
there; and that bo0kkeeper never read
Euripides or struggled through Tacitus
with the help Of d pony" The book
keeper VIII ask him If he studied
French while in college, and on his re
ply in the affirmative viii hand him
letter from a correspondent in Mar
settles and request him to answer it.
Then the c0lIegian VIII tie his eyebrows
up in a knot and become red in the face.
and long for a dictionary; and as
French dictionaries are not part Of the
furniture Of wholesale leather house.
the letter viii be turned over To a
hatchet-faced Canadian clerk who has
hitherto been regarded as a .'dago' by
his employers son. The latter VIII dis