The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26
"CAMPUSTRY" at
RVINGTON
Incidents of a Rainy Day

"That explains why she cut the ehapei
exercises yesterday
Eyes. / was late and / saw Isabel ana
Martha engaged at their new study"
Ibid sPrexy' give his CONSENT"
81 don't believe he knows"
.sCuttfngs chapel IL a serious offense."
But Isabel. you know. is as independent
as Martha Both will run the risk of cen
sure. When / asked Isabel why she and
her chum had taken up campustry she
laughed.
Why you dear goose she said. L have
been studying PHYSIOLOGY all this term.
and I find campustry an excellent ad-
junct.'"
Just like Isabel"
Here Betty interrupted. What are you
talking about. girls? Telling tales out of
school2"
Phyllis and Laura are two of Betty's
brightest friends. They attend college, and
much of their spare time is spent at Betty's
home.
Merely gossiping. harmlessly, said Pnyl-
IFS, in reply to Betty's questions
Beware of gossip. girls. 1t is womans
bane' Betty is several years older than
her school friends, and her advice is often
sought and generally needed.
had visited Irvington at Betty's invita-
ton TO view the fruit trees in their wealth
OF spring bloom. but a mid-April shower
kept US within doors temporarily. Phyllis
and Laura were discussing campustry when
entered the house.
81 wonder what campustry is?" said TO
myself. / am familiar with the curricu-
lums of many colleges. outlined in their
catalogues, and did not recall having seen
campustry mentioned in any course. Ny
curiosity impelled me to ask for informa-
ton.
what is campustry?" queried. address,
ing Phyllis.
IAN unauthorized study which some of
the Butler students have taken up" was
the reply.
What has it to do with psychology"
Little. except in imagination Psychol-
ogy. you know. deals with the mind, and
some branches of 1t treat wholly Of imag-
nation
"Hypnotism and suggestion. thought
transference. ETC., for instance" I said.
Yves; and the phenomena of duplex per-
sonality, Authorizations. illusions. amnesias,
insanity, personality. will, spiritualism and
imagery" said Phyllis.
"shows the course embraces the psychic life
of animals and man from the more general
standpoint of evolution and heredity. In
a broad sense. psychology is the science of
the human SOUL"
1T was not the definition of psychology
wanted. What has campustry to do with
the study of the mind?"
magination." Phyllis replied again, with
I appealed to Betty. but she was explain
ing an intricate mathematical problem to
her young brother Jack, who is in the
preparatory department of the college. and
she did not enlighten me. Then it occurred
to me that campus is Latin for field"
and that try had been affixed by jocu-
lar student. "Campustry." it follows, must
>felate TO the college campus.
Jack" I inquired of Betty's brother as
he finished his problem. what does a girl
do on the campus when she cuts chapel
exerclses?'
Sometimes she just walks around the
place"
And at other times?'
"she reads a book. as if studying les
sons
And that is campustry?"
Il
think they only mean coed is studying
campustry when she stays out OF chapel
TO talk with friend. Yesterday Isabel
and Martha were talking to Mr.. -"
mo Names" cautioned Betty.
when / passed them on the campus"
continued Jack. 'they were telling Mr..
Blank what Francis Wilson said the night
before at the theater."
not there"
He merely said: Ladies and gentlemen
of Indianapolis and people of Irvington.
and as there were a good many Irvington
people present he made hit"
mo imagination about that" I said to
Phyllis.
"They were walking In the direction
was going." Jack went on, "and 1 heard
them discussing one OF the fraternity
dances. Isabel seemed to be teasing Mr.
Blank. but perhaps she was only uncon-
sciously displaying little harmless CO.
Quetry."
Experimenting in psychology" Laura
explained.
Testing the phenomenon OF thought
transference, perhaps the power of wom-
ans mind over man. suggested Phyllis.
81 think campustry has been sufficiently
explained said Betty, reprovingly. lisa
bel and Martha are nice, sensible girls. Isa-
bel and Mr.. Blank are neighbors at home
and IL Is generally understood that when
they graduate they will be married. Cam
pustry. therefore, should not be used as
term Of reproach in their case"
Betty then turned her attention to an
other problem. Mathematics is one of her
hobbies, but i must admit she knows as
much about surds and imaginaries, coeffi-
clients and logarithms. cubic and biquad-
ratio equations. calculus and tyigonometry
and the binomial theorem as she knows
about flowers. birds and trees.
Tell me about the trisoctahedron,"
said one day when she was in a mathemat-
zeal mooc, after having primed myself for
the occasion.
which kind-tetrigonal or trigonaI?" she
asked.
Either both." I replied crestfalIen at
her readiness 10 answer.
Then for the next few minutes the iso-
metric system. with its solids faces, quad
. rilaterals and isosceles triangles was ex-
piained in detail. / did not pretend to fol-