The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-19

of Michigan, after nine years In
China. / was so raw (the fact
bearers will tell you-blither themD
that l didn't know a fraternity
house from any less expensive
boarding place. and in the early
stages of a most fIattering rush
announced that I liked. the house
and the roomerS. and sent for my
suit case and settled down That
story is a gross fabrication. con-
ceived in the minds and uttered by
the tongues OF evil-minded students
of the law, and you know what
they are!
But ] settled in that house.
whether with or without invitation,
and in due course became a Phi
Delta Phi Many a tender memory
clings round the long porch and
many dear friend dwelt beneath
the roof of the old house while we
cried The games the thing unto
the opulent but bad-hearted alumni
to help us build a fitting temple
for our fraternal gods. Years later
the tears of pleading melted the
hearts of steel and the house was
/ built.
His "TBeef- Discovered.
81 settled with my brethren and
dwelt peacefully in the atmosphere
Of scholarship. and might have be-
come a great and good and learned
| man. But one day the football scouts
discovered that there was beef in
hiding, and sought it out. Alas! II
was /. / didn't want to play foot
ball. had never seen a football,
| They knew all that. They cared
edge. NV career was nothing &C.,
them. They cared only for foot
ball. They wanted weight in the
line. They cared not whether I
could really play or not. need
be only my sweet, overwhelmed
self, like poor Mercutio's wound,
METER so deep as a well nor so
wide as a church door, but twin
suffice I walled that didn't want
to play football or marbles or It'd
dledewinks. l wanted to loaf and
learn.
But why continue the sad mar
rative? You know the rest. How
resist the irresistible? Don't Won
love your college? I didn't know
hadn't been there long enough. At
last it came. Michigan counts ON
you / surrendered. They got me
a suit. made to order. 1 scorned
headgear. Who was /, to combat
nature-she scorned 1t for me first,
Il became football player.
Glad He Played Football.
"1 have my picture in toys to
prove it. I played football. be-
came glad of it then and i have
been glad ever since. -
= Il went forth and grappIed with
the enemies, of my university.
Mostly. however, they grappled with
me.
"Myriads have trampled on me.
They, came down like a wolf On the
fold and danced rigadoons on nv
back. 1 lac down to meet the re-
tVolving wedge. on frozen ground,
and the enemy came and kicked me
and fell upon me. -.. -. -.
That was all my masters wanted
of me. my weight to begin with,
and then the cowardly courage that
inspired me to suffer indignities ana
agonies rather than face the wither.
ing scorn OF undergraduates
didn't play. -'... =
II had many wounds. But lived.
l had no desire to hurt the other
man. / never hurt one much lex
tcept one, and that was an accident),
though ! used sometimes to get
quite cross. never got seriously
hurt myself. I remembered being
annoyed, however, when the oppos-
ing center made the gIeesome dis
eovery that Il had boil on my
neck, and dug it out for me. Boils
win be boils, and they are quite
irritable at times, and il Is best to
leave them alone. The other center
entertained a, different view Per-
haps It helped me, after aii-it hurt
enough.
"The sGame's the Thing.
"one thing ] never did. and that
was to try deliberately to put out
a. man, regardless OF the perhaps
permanent injury he might receive.
la ground gamer
Football is a game. a gentle.