The daily Alaskan., 1914-07-08
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 A Story For Commencement By MARGARET C. DEVEREAUX

! ! their classes and take all the prizes 1 graduates he Is seized upon by the fac l ulty for material to supply the waste l in their own ranks. Philip PIympton was one of these phenomena and from student was naturally develop ed Into a professor. He had not gone into the world even for a day to scratch for himself, as most young men are obliged to do. He had simply passed from one intellectual condition to higher one.
 | Professor PlymptOu was appointed to ! the chair of mental philosophy at womau's college. The subject is a 1 large one, involving many branches. The professor was fond of dwelling on those features of it that were most capable of exploiting his own original ideas. One day he was Iecturing to his class, composed of young ladies from eighteen to twenty-two, when he spoke as follows: When an Idea rccurs without the pres ] pnce of the object remembered it is called | remembrance This brings us Go consider | memory one of the most complex of men ! tai faculties. Sometimes the most divine ! of all our sensations, love, seems to be | dependent on the faculty ot memory. | There are different kinds of love In this | instance l refer 10 love between tho sexes Indeed, to that love which cnauIe3 uL l death When a loving husband and vile are parted by death memory is all that keeps It alive.
 Naturally such discourse excited the attention of the class Miss Kitty Werner. who was ready to bounce on any of those serious problems that cn. guge the attention of profound scholars with a view to turning it into riaicu,e, arose and, having been recognized by the professor. asked:
 How do you know that, pr0fcssOrt'
 We know it from cases of the de- struction of memory by am injury to the brain. Men have been known to be attacked with this trouble who have forgotten wife and even ch..drcn.'
 But has not the love returned when the brain has been relieved"
 "Ccruinly.'
 "Then why do you infer that mem ory is all that keeps love alivef Has not the love lived during the loss of memory?"
 "The condition is peculiar" replied the professor ha'tfugIy. "What yn refer to is a suspension ol memory not a loss. When memory Is restored 1t goes on working gs usua-'
 "In other words, begins where 1t left off, l suppose"
 "Ycs"
 And the love goes on where it left off too?"
 Certainly"
 "Then why may not a broken love be reunited, not only in this world, but in another eXistence:'
 The professor coIorcd and said this was but one of a great number of o1- jections that arose in the presentation of any subject To reply would re. ouire much time and his lecture must remain unfinished With this he pro- ceeded with hls subject.
 Ten years from the date Of the de- livery of that lecture Professor P.ymD- ton. now a mature uan, was sitting beside a lady some tau years his jun. for. whom he was cndcuyoriug to per, suade to become his wife. Neither had been married.
 "I have always believed in one love in a lifetime and one love ouiy,' said the lady. "I would wish to he con vinced that my husband would love me not only through life, but for all | eternity"
 "I cannot conceive of my ever ceas. ing to love you.'
 Suppose you should meet with an injury to the brain and lose all mem ory of me. Would that end ycur love"
 "No; if relieved of the cause of the loss of memory my love would begin again where it left off,
 How about death:'
 "The same reasoning would pertain. I would continue to love you though disembOdicd"
 What has memory to do with i0ve?"
 Nothing. Love is something super | human; a matter of souL'
 The lady made no reply to this at 1 once. On the corner of her lips there was a quirk and in her eyes, which were bent on the floor, a twinkle.
 "You thinkers she said presently, fare apt to think for the time being These were not your opinions ten years ago."
 "Not my opinions ten years ago, What were my opinions ten years ago?"
 "You believed that love, or its con tinuance, rather, was dependent on | memory"
 "How do you know that l held to such a proposition" | Because l was a member of a col | lege class to which you lccturod You said in your lecture that love was bro- ken in upon by loss of memory, and ] took issue with you" 1 A light broke in upon the professors remembrance. lie saw himself a youngster of twenty five, full of theory and ignorant through iucNperience.
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