The sun., 1916-08-27
CLASS OF YEAR AFTER NEXT.
Let Parents Of Boys Consider This
Record Of One OF Its Members.

Let Parents Of Boys Consider This
Rseord Of One Of Its Members.
The father Of q son writes TO this
repository Of condolences: my boy
will be ready for college next fall. but
I hesitate to send him, because this
summer I have seen so many young
collegians. and" The letter spec
Ines the frivollings Of holiday making
youngsters; It indicates that the dis
tressed parent. a self-made man able
md eager to help his boy UP the frst
few rounds Of the ladder he himself
climbed so laboriously. has seen Jack
at play only and does o know the
Industrious. diversified and fruitful
forms Of application OF which he and
his fellows are capable.
Consider the case Of Bugs Blnks. IL.
Past the fever of soph year, he regards
tho wide. wide world" Of which June's
haccalaureates sang so pathetically
without yearning and without dread.
Summer baseball, summer girls and
summer training camps are pleasant
i~nterludes In the business Of his life.
They are not essential elements Of Il.
whatever sensational censors have to
say. In between he relieves the mo.
notony OF waiting for life 10 resume
with occasional pecupiarily profitable
occupations. and renewing h0 ao.
Qu%aintancs with the home folks. AZ
home he airs his knowledge. his
knowledge right or wrong-but mostly
wrong. for 10 selects his topics with
more courage than fitness to his learn
Ing. He 10 loyal to II. either way.
Secretly he bones on that condition
In German 177k B. parting blessing
Of an unreasonable member Of the
Fac-A. b. Harvard. NJ. A. Oxon.. Ph.
d. Heidelberg. u. s. ". Next year
Bugs will conquer his afinity for the
pretentiously inaccurate and the fu-
tilely magnificent. which a Democratic
member Of the Federal Cabinet might
envy. Just now Bugs Binks believes
In Bugs Binks. Nobody else may be-
lieve In him. he may think he believes
in nothing else: or he may believe In
everything good with ar impartial en-
thusiasm. He doesn't know Just where
he's going. but he's on his way, and
sure to get there.
Bugs. Why Bugs? The name 10
not chronological but psychological.
Archibald Algernon was the identify
ing device with which his doting par.
ents started him of. While Archie"
expresses affectionate familiarity in
boydom. II will not do for Q Man to
whom Prep School has become a mem.
DRY OF the lowlands. strangling in the
rareied atmosphere Of the %vertiginous
| n1fiftdA0 N u,hiDh eha Co1tn1> Mo- 10.
climbed. Much more Of times stream
must now under the birthday bridges
before he recognizes how. TO place him
in M proud eminence Of a matricu-
late in Arts. his preceptors had to pull.
his pdrents TO push.) In freshman
year Algernon's classmates. not quite
certain whether ne vas deep or err
ratio. christened him Bugs. which in
campus speech FITS either case: and IL
bearer made IL creditable to himself.
On the mast head" OF the college
daily. where the list Of lower class a..
sociate editors Is arranged alphabet
cally. his initials give him at least Q
typographical prominence.
|. Nature blessed Binks's kicking foot.
He has not the dash OF q halfback, the
!, nat footed Immortality Of q guard.
the fanatical courage Of the end who
risks life. limb and a sheepskin to prove
!. that the bigger they are the harder
, they fall. But he has a "clever toe
His drop kicks are marvels Of muzzls
velocity. accurate direction and nat
trajectory. foOtballistics unsurpassed.
Dropkickers. sent in at the penulti-
r mate minute Of q scoreless match. may
save the day for Alma Mater after the
u has set. Bugs Binks lone IT,
r was her triumphant chant after the
Big Game last year. 1t did not turn
the hero's head. ';Oh. hell" ne said
o III Dusty Miller hadn't blocked of
r that red headed end Of theirs Id have
been smothered."
Bugs is not q muddied oaf Of the
: play field. He covers himself with
n glory. not real estate He Is not ar
: officer Of his class. but It has no more
h loyal member. He does not take hon.
h ors. but he IL above the middle OF the
d class in rank. Not on the Prom. Com
q mittee. he.is always ready to save the
d less SNOWY girls from the walliower'!
= fate. He doe not report the Inter.
collegiates for the Daily. but he car
rustic ads and lead prudent Prexy int
4 the utterance Of sentiments no nevel
intended to promulgate but canno
gracefully disown. Bugs will not de
liver tho Latin Salutatory. but tn,
Va!edictory Is not beyond his range
He may not serve conspicuously. bu'
. he Toes not stand and wait"
Bugs may 60 into q Wall Stree
once on an Office boys salary: or h
n may Join tho stan OF his favorite met
4 ropolitan daily In the humblest Ca
pacity" its cashier recognizes on pa!
J" day: or he may take II into the heat
that won him his honorable nickname
that the world needs a school teacher
10 a lawyer. a salesman or a grocer O
a preacher OF exactly his description
y Whatever Bugs does after being grad
uated. he will do It In the spirit tina
" made "a success" OF his college life
And he will listen. without retort. I,
II eloquent expeditions OF the useless
ness OF college graduates-and z,
* quietly ahead d%isproving them by hi
Ar accommodating record.
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