Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-17
RE TURNS At AGK or
SEVERITY 70 STUDY
AGAIN At HARVARD.
Han who Has Been Cowboy, Mlninter.
Stage Manager. Ana Other Thangs
seeks Pest Graduafe Course

seeks Post Gradaate Coarse
THAT ne believes man Is never TOO.
old to learn. Is made plain by Col.
George Lyon. III. aged seventy years.
Harvard student. who has returned
to bis alma mater after many years
Col. Lyon. who is from Nelson. Neb.,
after earning his little pile, Is back 10
the university from which he was
gradua ed almost two score years
ago The following story Is told ID
the New York World OF this aged but
interesting student
The colonel possessed the same
Hheartiness and good fellowship Of his
Harvard days of the '70s. when he
addressed his classmate President
Lowell. as Larry Lyon has been voted
4 fuIIfedged member 81 the good fell
lowship fraternity at Harvard and Is
adding daily to his big stan ot friends
both Ia and out Of the fraternity
When asked how he came at seventy
to return to school and what mis- studies
J be said
4 never did have quite the oppor-
tunity to finish up at Harvard as !
wished For the longest TIME dream
cd OF re nrning 10 these old grounds
for study made my pile, have
brought up family, and my longing
has at last come true am here as
b post graduate taking Il course In
public speaking, and one on Shakes
peare. Of whom I am an ardent fol-
lower am Just one Of the boys and
want 10 be considered one Of them
Lyon IS installed iii rooms in the
south entry Of Stoughton hall on the
top floor His rooms are b render
yous for many OF his youthful friends,
who drop iii to chat or hear the cole
onel recite from his varied collections
.of prose and poetry
Knowing how TO speak In public
Ii one Of the greatest arts IN the world
1t won me my greatest treasure my
wife continued the colonel II gave
an address In ST Joseph Mo-. and
banker from Nebraska heard me and
rendered me an Invita- ion to speak in
his home town accepted, and SUBJ
sequentIy met and wooed successfulIy
the daughter of the banker So you
see. knowing some thing about public
speaking has meant much to me-
The colonel first became generally
known as Harvard man when he was
surrounded on armistice day while
walking through the college yard and
prevailed upon To give short speech
on the significance Of the day. after
which he reeited sGunga Din The
big snake dance which followed was
headed BY the doughty colonel
Time has not been al all unkind to
the old student Just tinge OF gray
fiecks his sandy hair and his tanned
and smooth skin shows little signs Of
#caretraced lines He is firm be-
lever IN the philosophy of happiness.
and one OF his foremost rules Is TO
treat everyone. of no matter what ssa-
ton III life. politely
Since his graduation Lyon has been
stage manager minister, cowboy, In
dian fighter, banker politician, editor.
teacher, singer, author. farmer, with
the boast that no one else in Nebraska
can raise pigs with him. and now he Is.
a comeback as 'rah rah.s boy.
He has remarkable memory and
within the last year has memorized
considerable number Of Kipling's and
Services works His fayorite poet Is
Tennyson He recites also stirring
passages from Shakespeare and has
been persuaded to make several APP
pearances al college entertainments