The Topeka state journal., 1903-12-19

There'l be a lot of these college men,
in box coats. rakish hats. broad soled
shoes, baggy trousers and the rest of
the rig, come home for the holidays.
and some of them may come to To-
peka. A few may draw a bulldog
along by the chain. or be led by one
They will smoke Grecian curved briar
pipes, and wear big sweaters and be
bedecked with fraternity pins. They'll
know all about the football scores and
will sing the latest college songs.
can't drop in for few hot dogs. at the
favorite restaurant, with Reggy
DeBilIerskite, of the class OF '92. They'll
talk. while at home, of things in the
town being oinky and all that They'll
try to impress you with their import
ance.
But they are not important. Not
bit. There isn't thing at the col
lege that would not go on just the
same if they never went back, and
Prof. Eliot, OF Harvard, wouldn't
have to go to some one else for advice.
These fellows, with the big trousers,
thing OF course they do. They know
the college yell by heart and can re-
peat it backwards, but that's about all.
They are there on pas money. The
fitting up Of their room is the most i'm
portant manner of their investing the
money, next to buying meal tickets and
the latest patterned clothes. These
| college men are in the majority, and
| they'll be heard as soon as the train
whistles for the crossing in Oakland.
An entirely different sort of a fellow
is coming home from Harvard, for the
holidays. He isn't a college man, to
apply the term as 1t is used He is a
| college student. He didn't go to Cam
bridge to bring up a bull pup, to be u
fashion plate, a football rooter nor a
boon companion. He went there to
learn all he could cram into his noodle
while he was there He didn't go with
a flourish of trumpets and a dancing
club wasn't short member when he
went away. He won't come back with
three years of crimson ribbon tied to
his coat.
This young man. who is coming home
| on Monday, was born in Topeka. He's
| a Jayhawker through and through. He
went TO the public schools here and
| then the high school. He finished there
and went to work in a store. He fin
ished his freshman and sophomore
years at Washburn college and earned
| his way by carrying papers. He was a
| plutocrat. He owned two paper routes.
He Joined a church. He was active
| in the Sunday school work. He became
| member of the Y. M. c. A. and once
| in a while delivered talks to the other
members at the Sunday meetings. He
wanted to go to Harvard. He didn't
| have the money.
One thing he did have; nerve. Some
| people might say it was gall 1t wasn't
| distilled If it was. When he wanted
something ne wasn't AFRAID TO go after
it. He wanted three men to lend him
money enough to give him good start
| in college. He was sure he could work
his way through IL he just had the
start. He didn't have any trouble in
getting a dry goods merchant, lawyer
and a banker to lend him the money
Maybe that was nerve. Whatever it
was the banker who usually tacks on a
good rate of interest, said he wasn't
particular about the interest.
| This young man hadn't been in Harvard
very long until he had a place offered him
on q paper. The salary was sufficient 70
pay his way through college and he would
have time to do the work The place
| would require him to work on Sunday.
He declined He had two three good
places given him later as assistant man
ager of a students club, reporter on tne
college paper and manager of the La
crosse team. Last summer he was en-
gagged to chaperone a party OF stuqent5
on a summer outing in the woods of
Maine He did SO well that be was PAID
| more than the agreed price for MS SER
vices Last week he was electeq ASSIST
ant business manager Of the harvard
i Crimson daily college paper, ana ms
salary viii be $500 year as long as NJ
goes to collegei Gee, It pays 70 go TO
II School. sometimes, besides the education
rfis Young man, who hasn't bull dog,
l,,7+ has ? big fat salary 1or a college
student will pay back in fuil the money
advanced him by the lawyer, the dry
goods merchant and the banker when he
others come home VINO VIII ask dad
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