The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-17

an acute case of dark blue colly.
wabbles! II that wasn't a topheavy re-
ward for foolishness I'll give 1t up.
Now, I'm not going to tell IL all be-
cause while I'm perfectly willing to dis
cuss other peoples love affairs | simply
can't seem to care to take the lid off
and let the world peer into ours. How !
persuaded Martha to look upon me as a
pleasant diversion and how I persuaded
her to come down about n thousand
miles and decorate existence for me
those are secrets. But I don't mind
telling you how 1t all started.
After all, that's the important part of
these college affairs. It's just like roll
ing a SNOWFALL downhill-start II and
you don't have to worry about II. 1t
will take care Of itself. That's all ]
really did about falling in love with
Martha. / started the affair; but |
didn't mean thing by II, either.
Neither did she mean anything. In
fact, she was n lot meaner than I
about 1t.
1t was the calendar that really began
IL all. one of the most mysterious
things in college life is the way the
year slips by under you and goes away
This never failed to surprise and grieve
me. A year is such a confoundedly long
affair when you look IT in the face-par-
ticularly college year.
When you consider. along in Septem-
Der, that before June you have to go to
chapel 200 times, read through several
books written IN decayed languages and
figure out a chubby volume of trigo-
plane wrecks when they are put on the
blackboard. the year seems like a quar-
ter section Of eternity. But suddenly,
just after you've made a lot OF friend
ships. have become a decided hit with a
number Of girls, are rounding into good
shape In the 220 squad and have a
dozen plans for the enllvenment OF the
campus well under way. you wake up
to find that there is about a month left
before commencement and that at the
end of that month the college will ex
plode and scatter your brand new life
long friends to all parts Of the country
This is the reason why so mpny col
lege boys become pensive along in April
and are what is technically known as
an improving crouch. They stop Gid
ing jublantly along on the days pleas
ures. with all care coming behind by
slow freight and begin TO philosophers.
And when a college boy begins to phil
oso, hlze he does a thorough and pains
taking job. He doesn't omit anything
that may add to his gloom.
He takes himself apart as carefully
as If he were a watch and looks into
his gummy interior and shakes his
dropping head and wonders why a
usually intelligent Providence has done
such sloppy work in constructing him.
And while he Is thinking of all this he
is dellciously miserable and makes new
and desperate resolutions and adopts
heroic measures to rise above the petty
trivialities Of pleasure. BY May the
ordinary college will contain n dozen
Of boys who are spending their spare
time sitting around with their heads in
their hands and are inviting their low
ing friends to go away and bite them
selves whenever said friends try to
thump them up into Cheerfulness.
or course seniors have this disease
hardest. but even freshmen are not
immune. I came down with a heavy
attack OF II along in the middle OF
March. had been sitting happily
around the house with the fellows one
evening discussing the baseball pros
poets and the superlative beauty of the