The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-06-19
A BRIEF VACATION TRIP.

week TO tlSlC Olu 1IleHuS dC Iowa lily
to attend the university commence
ment and to hear the addresses by
Secretary Taft.
1t was real pleasure to revisit
Iowa City. 1t is one of the most
beautiful and most friendly towns in
all Iowa. The University has chang
ed so greatly since the early nineties
that it seems like new school and it
is only with the aid of memory that
we can recall the old campus. the di-
lapidated South Hall where our lit
erary society proved one of our
chiefest interests. Harder still is
it to bring back the old faces of the
jolly. light-hearted boys and girls with
whom we went to school. Even when
we saw them in the flesh it was diff
cult to believe that the matronly
danes. the well-groomed professional
men, were the boys and girls of
twenty years ago.
But few of the old faculty remain.
The sanity dean Currier stepped
down and out this year. AS did also
the sweet faced. lovable Miss Call.
SO long at the head of the depart
ment of Greek. Calvin, Mcbride,
Weld and Loos are the members of
the old guard while Charles Bundy
Wilson still manages to hang on in
some way. In place of the cold aris-
tocratic Schaeffer as President one
meets the ELUSIVE Mclean. whose.
blarney gives the lie to any
Scotch ancestry. There is one thing
about President Mclean which we
like. We have been introduced to
him eleven times and he is always
just as delighted to make our ac-
quaintance as he was the first time.
Nevertheless he has proven himself a
great man in many lines and has done
much good for the university.
We must confess that it is Iowa
City itself which it gives US the
greatest pleasure to visit.
The town is old enough so that
there are giant oaks and hard naples
along the streets. The residences are
large and fine. The demand for rooms
is so great that it is economy to build
large house, rather than a small
one. The handsome buildings of the
University give distinction to the
city and the new dam just below
the town has converted the straggl-
ing stream into beautiful pleasure
resort. The people of Iowa City
long ago learned the lesson. which
Denison people have never learned
that the best way to help their col
lege is to take an interest in the
students. My how it warns the
cookies of the heart to walk along the
street and have grey-haired men stoI
and shake hands and remember al
about you. Real genuine friends, mer
who used to seem to take delight il
being of use to you. Men who USE
to make lit a point to go to old soutl
hall on the Friday nights when yo'
were on the program. That is VIII
y at commencement time you will Sc
the old students scrurrying away t
different parts of the city. 81 hav
got to see Mrs. So-and-so they say
81 used to room at her house, an
my, but. she was good to me. =
One of the institutions of low
4 <y.. w, al,
about to say THE institution of low
City is Max Mayer. Max is a Jew
He wouldn' be Gentle for all hi
wealth. so we know that he woul
thank US for calling attention to TIL
fact that he is Jew. His hair
white now but his eyes are bright an
young an twinkly. He is the hes
single-handed friend the boys at low
CITY ever had He sells clothes t
the boys and has gotten rich at tn
business. But he sells good clotht
and Tor just as little money. as an
one else so we see no harm in tina
81 But aside from business. Max takes
genuine interest in his boys. If the
did not believe that, if they did M
not know that his interest was re;
ami not a matter of business. the
would have dropped him like a hi
potato long ago. AS matter of fae
whether it be Y. M. c. A. buile
ing or foot ball game or legisls
tive committee. Max is the stand-b
of everyone. If boy is real hard u
he can borrow money of Max whethe
ne buys clothes of him or not. Thei
is nothing of the money lender abol
it for we never hear of him chargin
interest. If boy starts to SO
wrong Max is on hand with the ad
vice that counts. Not the goodl
goody' advice that boys will not tax
and always resent. but good-felloW
ship. tie advice OF friend and
PAL. that has helped many fello'
to his feet where President an
n,oanber and faculty WolIld have fail