Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-10-16
INTERESTING LETTER
Former Popular Physical Director of
the Y. NJ. c. Ais Duties at
Wesleyan University.
Delaware. O. Oct. s.

1 Delaware, O., Oct. S.
When ! promised you that / would
write letter to you to pass on to
4 my friends there Ia Martinsburg
didn't know what hefty proposition
| had tackled. AS was sitting here IN
the office thinking over whaa | should
rte, L began to dawn on me that /
had my work cut out for sure. since.
| Il ] write letter Of description OF the
scenery ! saw on my way over here.
all of you VIII think that l am writ.
! ing a guide-book TO the Alleghanies.
and II tell OF this school some will
think that | am beng paid to adver.
tise 1t. So you see about the only
thing left for me 10 do is to write
letter trying to tell Of the good things
my stay with you brought to ne In
the way of the beauties OF friendship.
Yet, Il do that, some OF the fellows
over there w.ll get sore thinking that
am writing a pubic love-letter to
his own girl. From this you can see
that ] am up against It. and | have
come to the conclusion that will
write Just as wish and then the edi-
tor can blue-pencll whatever he wants
| My duties here are very much diff.
ferent from those ! had over there in
the Y. M. G. A., and yet will have to
! admit that | preferred those even
though they are very much harder.
Here | work but three hours a day
and that work is partially done here
in the office. There is enc feature OF
the work that ] like very much and
that is that | do not nave to go out
and urge the men to 20 into the
! classes; instead OF that, they are more
1 than ANXIOUS to take up the work. and
we have classes that ere almost too
/ large to handle We have three reg
ular classes meeting three times a
week, and there are. from forty to six
/ ty in every c'ass. so you can see that
we have numbers at least. Then, be-
sides that. we have classes in boxing,
wrestling and swimming. which are
led by special instructors In about a
month we VIII begin class for spe-
cia work that will take up tumbhng
and fancy work on the heavy appar-
atus. That will be my special work as
we'll as assisting with the regular
classes whenever director needs me.
The worst feature about college
work is that there are no boys to
work with and that, to my mind, was
one of the most interesting features
of Association work. The youngest
men We have are | suppose about
nineteen years Of age, and to one who
4 likes TO work with boys-as ! do
| that Is entirely too old. OF course
that brings its advantages for the
work is not so hard.
The season has begun fer killing
off the freshmen and as | sit here at
the window can see groups of Sopho-
mores rushing the first year men to-
ward the sulphur spring where they
are Baptized into al the mysteries
of college life. There have been
some mighty good scraps today, for
not all o. the new fellows are willing
to take a bath with their clothes on,
and as some OF them are fresh from
the farm they are husky enough to
make things interesting for a crowd.
This will sound like Cd times to
Steger, but all the men who have been
here for years agree that there is more
doing this time than the old college
has seen for many years; in fact since
the time when one C ass stole a stage
coach and ran it up on the campus
i filled with their classmates and the
other class broke up the entire thing.
On Saturday will occur the annual
rush between the two lower c asses
on the athletic field and it will be a
4 great day for us upper classmen who
have passed through the mill before
and now have the p easGre OF seeing
the new men get theirs.
| have heard only d little news OF
goings-on over there out what little
| have heard has been good, so | con-
graduate you on your continued sue
cess. Many here have asked me about
Steger and all agree that he Is as
good a man as could have been found
and they send their best wishes TO
him In his new field. | managed to
get a copy of one OF the papers about
A month ago and read the account OF
the "open-hcuse." ! tell you 1t made
me home sick to see the familiar faces
again, and | am more firmly deter
mined that If the way opens at all ]
shall be over there for visit in the
coming spring or summer.
With best regards to all, ! am, sin
cerely yours,
FRANK T. CARTWRIGHT.