The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-17
BARTENDER TO BECOME
 A PRINCETON FRESHMAN

Hundreds of young men who have spent the summer at resort hotels in
 the humble capacity of walters are
 and universities. The student WIao
 works and waits at the same time is
 a familiar fugre at summer hotels and has come to be accepted as a
 matter of course: Princeton Uniyer- sity. however, is perhaps the first great American institution of learning to have real Bartender numb cred
 among it's students. He is. John Lar
 sen. of Chicago, and when the New
 Jersey university opens day after -to-
 morrow his name will appear among MT. Larsen goes to Princeton as the winner of the first scholarship offered by the Princeton Club of Chicago.
 of call in Milwaukee avenue, Chica go,
 and the bright youngster is arfamfliar
 figure behind the bar. He is a husky
 young man, standing six feet in his
 hositry. and weighing in the neigh borhood of two hundred pounds And it is all solid meat and not surplus fat of the kind that is aecnn1 uIat ted by too great indulgence in alcoholic beverages Young Larsen never takes anything, and when the news reached
 him that he had won Princeton scholarship he did not celebrate even to the extent of a pony beer. Lar sen looks ike mighty good football material. He is one of the crack athletes of a Chicago Y. M C. A. is l a good ba sl1etban player, and can heave a sixteen pound shot fort y-two feet He has announced his intention of atrying for the freshman football team
 John Larsen was born twenty-one
 years ago at McHenry, H., where his
 father was long the proprietor of a
 Summer hotel and, bar He has been in Chicago four years, and recently gradua ted from Evanston Acad deIny. He has been taking a preparatory course at Lewis Institute this Sum ha0T his fa the bar at 5:30 in the morning, remaIn- ing on duty until his father arrives at
 the afternoon, and another at night
 Despite these activities, he has kept
 up his studies and is in every way
 equipped to enter the university be his specialties at Princeton. and he expects to make engineering his pro- fession.ss He speaks French and Ger man well as English. Tn the intervals of serving customers
 he carries on his sstudfes, andzsft wa S
 this spirit of intellectual application
 that led to his Princeton appointment.
 The buffet is lined, with text books on such subjects as analytical geon- etry, physics, chemistry and survey | ing and these ma tyFal1y VI a ttraeted the what, unusual furnishing gs for a place l of liquid refreshment. The studious l barkeeper thus the friendship of Clyde Stevens, who was captain of the Princeton '04- baseball nine, and Donald McFherson, a prominent Chi
 cago attorney whog was educated at | Princeton. s They Recommended Lar | sen for the new sch o1ais htp,sa.s vel.
 as helping him swifh his studies
 1 Young Larsen isis Very popular with | the patrons of the Larsen saloon. which is exceptionally clean and orderly place. patronized largely by professional and business men. Some of the customers declare. however. that as a drink mixer the young man is an excellent civil engineer
 Larsen is described d handsome, affable, attractive young man. and his friends predict that he will be inn menseIy popular at Princeton Some have expressed fears that the fact that he. has been a bartender may be 'agairst hifIl,s but I~, Is is unlikely. There
 are snobs in all colleges. but the Chi cago bartender will never miss their approval. and he will doubtless be popular among the great mass of stu dents.