The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-24


| ing my time, but I was no snob. and
! even IL 1t was a little school intended
! to stick to II until my ,nior y.or any
way, and pull il up-riye II some tome
And wherever / went-to Yale or Uar-
ward or Columbia-to finish nm would
always think kindly of SiNash and de-
fend it,.
While others might be ashamed of
the small colleges from which they
rose, you would never find me conceal
ing the fact that went To Siwash.
It's a sign of pettiness and bourgeoisie-
I had Just gotten that out OF my
French-to be ashamed of humble
beginning. Even when I was a dictator
in finance and fashion in New York
and great men fell over themselves To
get my acceptance to dinners / would
not forget Siwash 1t was a good little
school. But of course il would never
appreciate what I would do for it-&c.
After had reflected along these
lines for a couple Of hours along about
the middle of November | used to look
doubtfully at a couple of trolley poles
and fold my ears back before I dared
to edge through between them.
It's so delicious TO float along like
this: to meet with your own entire and
enthusiastic approval; to leave off
worrying about yourself because there
isn't n single Improvement that Won
can figure out: TO sneak kindly TO nice
girls and make them hammer thereby:
To 90 IN To college. elbow to elbow with
the masses. leaving foottracks that
NAV some day be perpetuated in brass
and speaking casually with students
who will tell of the event TO their
grandchildren.
II was the manifest period of my life.
7 was perfect. Everybody admitted II.
though IL was rather impertinent in
them 70 go TO that trouble. Barring
the one fact that the faculty allowed
rnnIish nride tn keen II from asking me
into It's meetings now and then lust To
GO, a new angie on its problcms. / don't
believe 7 could have asked another
thing In rho world
remember. nh how plainly, the first
lit,,e shadow thai Cell across nv bliss
7, was In LIT class. made IL rather
n point 10 attend classes. though it was
unnecessary. for 7 didn't s,lppose any
professor would have dared to make
troubIe. Still. I was in college for the
purpose, and besides it was a bad thing
for nc leaders Ia cut classes and start
that sort Of business among the student
bodv.
III was n ehastly bore. It was moth
ING hut a bunch OF obituaries and a
boost for q lot of books on the back
shs1ves Of the library. Beowulf was
about ms valuable to me as the Duke of
Ruckinphom's head would have been,
ard 7 didn't care a holey sock whether
Cbaucer lived in the thirteenth century
or In hoe sipno yinces. declined to
hone ~, the stuff but IL was easy to stall
through II. and IL was a good class in
which 10 studv types. There were a lot
NJ oueer folks in it-people who seemed
IA think that sort of thing was impor-
tan,foIls you'd never meet in the ordi-
nary course NJ college life.
was sitting in Lit, class one day late
4, No,,a,,har with my foot stretched
ont tbinking rather intently on a little
stunt 7 was working nm for the banjo
cruh uhen suddenly heard n silence
f,,nry how loud a silence can be. I
Iooi,o5 nm ouickIy Every eve was glued
no IA prof luminous was lacking
-. ,,,i,h n,oar emile
49,, bod hoo, called on
a., ~, - oraor =" cold IN the nro.
80 "D,a co., col on rneo" was
rar,, no,,,a ana considerate