New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

There is nothing cl0istral about the
University of Chicago except Its
architecture. AS She went out Rose
felt that the presence Of Il fat abbot
or n lady prioress in the corridor
outside the recitutiOn-rOom would have
fitted in admirably with the look Of
the warm gray walls and the carven
pointed arches of the window and
door easements, the blackened oak of
the doors themselves.
She wasn't fully conscious of 1t on
this March morning, but something
had happened that made "A difference.
If she'd been ascending an impercep-
tihlc gradient for the past months.
today she had come to n recognizable
step up and taken It,. Oddly enough,
the thing had happened back there in
the classroom as she too before the
professors desk and caught his eye
wavering between herself and the
scrnwny girl who wanted to ask a
question about RobcSpicrre. There
had been more than blank. helpless
f 'AhSItl htI'lI III mat i''h VI i'', ''f'
il had taught her something. She
couldn't have explained what.
She went swinging along alone, her
shoulders back, confronting the warm
March wind, drawing long breathS into
her good deep chest. She had just
had. psychically speaking, a birthday,
She played a wonderful game of
BASKETBALL that afternoon, and it was
after five O'Clock when, at the con-
cIusion Of the game and II cold shower,
II rub. and II somewhat casual re-
SUMPTION of her clothes, she emerged
from the gymnasium. High time that
She took the quickest way of getting
home, unless she wanted to be late for
dinner.
But the exhilaration of the day per-
sisted. She felt like doing something
out of the regular routine. Even a
preliminary walk of n mile or so before
she should cross Yer and take the
elevated, would serve to satisfy her
mild hunger for adventure.
SO, with her notebooks under her
arm and her sweatcr-jacket unfasten-
ed, at II good four-mile swing she
started north. In the purlieus of the
university she was frequently hailed
by friends of her WI sex or the other.
But though she waved cheerful re-
SponSeS to their greetings, h made
her stride purposeful enough to dis
courage offers of company. They all
seemed young 70 her today. All her
student activities seemed young. AS
if. somehow, she had outgroWn them.
The feeling was nom the less real
after She had laughed at herself for
entertaining it.
She noticed presently that it was a
good deal darker than it had any
right to be nt This hour, and the sudden
fall of the breeze and Il persistent
simmer of lightning supplied her with
the explanation. When she reached
Furty-Suvrnth street. the break of the
storm WAS obviously Il matter Of
minutes, 50 she decided to ride across
to the cltvat"d-it was another mile,
perAHpS-rather than to walk across
as She had meant to do.
She found quit" Il group of people
waiting ON the Orn"r for Il car, and
the ear itself, when it came along,
was crowded. so she handed her
nickel to the conductor over some
body'S shoulders, and moved back to
the corner of the ~veSlihule, which.
did very well until the ncX stop,
where half II dozen more prospective
passengers We're waiting. They were
in Il hurry, too, since it had begun in
very downright fashion to rain.
The conductor had been chanting,
ZIP in the car, please" in a per-