The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-31
GRAY HEADS AT COLLEGE.
Full-Grown Men Not Uncommon
Among Freshmen Nowadays.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
ut is remarkable" said a man who will
go back to college as senior next month.
how many full-grown men there are in the
colleges to-day
At have compared notes with fellows from
mon to see a freshman with gray hair, who
will never see his thirty-fifth and possibly
for the most part who wish to take a spe-
cial course or two, or If they start out with
the idea of getting degree they usually
give it up and either disappear or devote
themselves to one or two branches.
I'm the technical schools you will find
full-grown men boning upon one two
lines, men who are doing well in their bust
ness, but feel the lack Of college training
and have the idea that they can do much
better after a year or so Of study. OF
course, hundreds of men feel this way. but
only a small percentage OF them have the
grit to go to college among men so much
younger and sit side by side with them in
the class room Then, again. 1t is not every
man who can afford TO leave his business
for such a purpose.
at is very strange to see these men at
work. to note their struggles to master the
times to see men who have done well in
their business struggling over a lesson
which came as easy as pie to us youngsters.
wonderful difference between youth and
even early middle life that I expect ever
to be presented to me.
when over thirty and brought with him his
wife and two small children. He had no
money to speak OF and he was determined
to get full college education, classical. His
wife was plucky little woman and she
was right there at his elbow at every stage
Of the game.
"This was in a small New England coll
lege. The mans wife opened an eating club
and the man looked after the business end
OF Ii. How that woman looked after the
two babies and ran that club / don't know,
but she did. She was a wonderful cook, and
soon the club had the reputation all through
the town, and the other eating club folks
began to say unkind things of this man
and his wife. But they lived ii all down.
1.-The man had a fierce time of it keep
ing in the class for the first year. Half
a dozen professors advised him to quit, but
he hung on and won out. By the end of
sophomore year he hadn't a condition,
and he graduated with his class. He WASH t
at the bottom of the list, either He got
his college education and supported a wife
and two children while he was doing it.
when l was a freshman certain man
came To college with his son. The boy
took full academic and the father was a
special. The father was bustling business
man. and have often wondered how they
ever let him come even as q special
He would make the funniest of breaks
in recitation. Fortunately for the boy, he
and his father were in different classes.
The father was a good fellow, though and
had made he would laugh as loud as any
one.
He had any amount of rocks, but was
as simple and as unaffected as child over
1t. He seemed to enjoy nothing so much as
being in a room full OF thoroughly good
fellows, although he never lost his dignity
and he never went anywhere near the
carousing gang. He only stayed a year, and
within year after that he died. When
they opened his will they found he'd left
two or three hundred dollars TO the college.