The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-28
COLLEGE PEOPLE
AND MARRIAGES
DR.. Binder Declares That
Daily Contact Destroys
Romance
FRAT GIRL SAYS NOT
Routine Association and Class
Rivalry May Have Some
thing to Do With Case
RN MARGERY REX.

rrtlr square, high over the garish
green 'led roofs and cleaning sky
lights under which genius is pay
inn ,Norhitant rent. sedately stands
The spber-sided building that houses
New York university.
And sober though it's mien may
Sc within it's halls dedicated to the
2lgher earning, wages a lively con-
proycrsy DR.. Rudolph Binder be-
Wan b. when he boldly stated in the
Washington Square Dealer, the col
lege urgan OF opinion. that few col
lege men marry co-eds OF their own
university.
That this professors claims
should not be disputed Is too much
to expect. The college crush" IL
700 vital an institution. at least to
It's transient addicts. to be so light
ly dismissed.
Dr binder says
DR.. Binders Statement.
"tnlversity love affairs are usual
~ OF short duration because the girl
and the man meet too frequently In
the classrooms. Tho routine course
OF every day sessions seems to put
dampcr on romantic feeling. The
man fears to be excclled In his
academic work, and the girl, too.
l,eels herself humbled II she fails.
' Extremely young people. whose
'ideas about romantic love are very
immature. often pass through such
period. The feeling is based upon
some purely external feature--good
looks cleverness. repartee. re-
member a young woman in one OF
my Iasses who told me that she
cared for a certain university man
because he parted his hair so nicely.
Romantic love In eight hundred
gesrs old. 1t originated during the
zines Of chivalry and reached it's
highest perfection in Dante's love
for Beatrice. II Is an intense. mu-
tual admiration for the personality.
differing from the platonic love or
friendship in that its ultimate OBJ
ject is marriage.
When romantic love exists, both
the man and woman will remain
single IL the desired marriage is
thwarted. Spiritually. each will be
the other and could contemplate no
other union. From such a love comes
the ideal marriage"
Girl Has Different Opinion.
According to Miss Margaret Her
mes, member OF the senior class and
Of the Sigma Kappa Pi sorority.
and most important of all. fiancee
Of ~. Y, T." man, DR.. Binder
10 most sadly mistaken in his ideas.
You may tell him for me-" pro-
tests Miss Hermes. that l think he
is quite wrong. l think young men
AID women who meet in college are
apt TO be very well suited to each
other. They are getting the same
preparation for life and they have a
community of interests which ought
to make their marriage happy.
Il know many cases OF marriages
OF girls and men who met in col
lege and they have turned out very
well. | don't mind telling you that
the university, but / don't tell his
name. | didn't meet him in a class,
but outside the. university. We meet
here, though, and don't think that
the fact Of seeing a person often
or knowing his or her abilities TOO
we'll makes for disillusion Or means
that couple will not eventually
marry"
But all students OF n. Y. L. are
not OF the same mind, for Burton
Warren. president OF tho students
day body. agrees with DIR. Binder,
IN fact is probably one OF has
slaunchcst supporters. Observe the
reason:
Views Of Men Students.
The professor Is right" laughs
Mr. Warren. There 10 too grea;
chance that two students develop
100 much alike and that sort OF
'hing is opposed to all the ideas OF
romance. They grow too much
along the same lines. Both from
observation and from personal ex-
perience | have found out that these
college affairs do not work out sat.
istactorily"
Hes got a girl in his home
Town whispered william G. John
son, president OF the senior class,
and Warren admitted the charge.
There Is a chance that q girl
might know more than her future
husband and that also spoils love"
continued Warren. ION the other
hsnd a girl might not want a man
Who eNcelled her In classes"
Another point,- broke In his
friend Johnson, "is that most fol-
lows going to college arc not seri-
Gus about such things. They think
~ HfNihB koou '"SS
are not too careful. For example,
men nv to see how many girls they
can get on their lists. and with each
new girl tho memory of her prede-
eessor filters out Of their minds i'm
medlately They take new girl TO
ivory dance they attend and want TO
nave good LOCKERS only"
Wen, there arc exceptions to
eYery rule Erinned Warren, who
makes mysterious Weekend trips to
nis home town. Marlborough-on-
hedson, according to his friends.
Row fellows keep steady com
pahy with one girl while In college,
noutly declared William Johnson
Nhlle his companion looked at Elm
muCh as an early Christian martyr
might look at a hereto.
q. Most fellows in college turn over
.helr frat pins to girls" continued
.ne speaker, "and that u supposed
70 mean en- engagement: at least II
ss's therh under the classification
" engaged couples"
Where C,Oisc Is Wide.
II till YOU one thing" said the
mead Of the day body. "about the
iIollege hero type. mean the EEL
,ow who has made a great hit In
toothaal. basketball and baseball. lie
mare OF target for feminine
sshes and therefore would have
aMd time being true to anyone ne
vas really In love with. And
s"o4 looking college girl has 30