The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-03-09

w llVI % Nf''tf~iIt was ViN'f'bl
fr'u y hI-h srhuol.
IFS not like hnvin' ~ use one big
rom Hs headquarters YOU know.
Ramsey Everything, an SILT NJ. aud
sh might harpcn not be- in a single
on" of your glasses"
You don't know my luck :" the NJ
liccd boy protested. 81 wish I'd gone
To Harvard the way my father wanted
me to. Why. this is just the worst
M .uncc ever struck Youll SOC
Sh u be- In everything there Is. just
III, way she was back home"
lie appeared to be corruboratcd by
the events Of the next day when they
attended the first meeting to organize
the new class. The masculine ele-
ment prcdnmlnated. hut Dora Yocum
was elected vice president. you
sccT Ramsey said. "Didut tell
YOU You see what happcnsT"
But after that she ceased for time
to iulrulc upon his life. and he admit
ted that his hara~>mrnt was lass grave
than he h-d anticipated. There were
about five hundred students in the
freshman class: he seldom saw her.
and when he did II was not more than
distant glimpse ~ her on one ~
The campus paths. her thoughtful head
bent over u book rs she hurried 10 n
classroom. This was hearable and in
the hattering agitatlons Of being
sought and even hunted. by several
"fruternltieS' simultaneously DESTROYS
of his becoming a sworn Brother, he
almost forgot her. After hazardous
month the roommatcs fell into the
arms Of the last frat" To- seek them.
and having undergone an evening Of
outrage which concluded with touch
ing rhetoric and an oath taken nj
midnight, they proudly wore jeweled
symbols on their breasts and were
free to turn part of their attention
10 other affairs. especially the affairs
# the Eleven.
However. they were instructed by
the older brethren of their order,
whose duty II was To assist In the
proper maueuycring Of their young ca
reerS. that. although support Of the
varsity teams was important. they
must neglect neither the spiritual nor
the intellectual by-products Of under
graduate duings. Therefore they be
came members of the college Y. NJ. G.
A. and nf the "Lumen Society"
According To- the charter which II
La. "A 81 .,
ETY." was an Organization of male
and female studcnts"-sO advanced
was this univerSity-'fort the develop
mcnt Of the powers of debate and or
atory. intellectual and sociological
progress. and the discussion Of all mat
tiers relating to philosophy, metaphyS-
les. literature. art. and current events"
4 statement so formidable was not
without "A hushing effect upon MeSsrs.
Milholland and Mitchell; they went
Ia their first 'Lumen" meeting in a
state Of fear and came away little
reasSured.
81 couldn't get up there" Ramsey
declared. 81 couldn't stand up there
before all that crowd and make a
speech, or debate in debate to save
my soul and gizzard. Why, I'd just
Keel right over and hat to be carried
out"
We'll. the way | understand IT,"
said Fred 1--WE can't get out of It. The
seniors in the frat said we had to
Join, and they said we couldn't resign,
either. after we had Joined. They
said We just had to 90 through II, and
after while we'd get used to IT and
not mind IL So much"
II will :" Ramsey insisted. 81
couldn't any more stand up there on
my feet and get to spoutin' about
sociology and the radical metempsy-
chorus Of the metaphysical hazoozum
than could fly fiyin machine. Why,
i"
"Oh. that wasn't anything" Fred
interrupted. The only one that talked
like that, he was that Dickens; he's
a tutor, or something. and really a
member of the faculty. Most a the
just hilu VI
Iround. and what any OF 'em tried
get of their chests hardly amount
I'd to terribly much"
II don't care. ] couldn't do II at
all"
well, the way II looks to me- Fred
observed, I'VE simply got to! From
what they tell me, the freshmen go'
TO do more than anybody. Every 9th
er Friday night, it's all freshmen and
nothin' else. You get postal card
On Monday morning in your mail, and
II says Assignment on Il and-and-
then it's got written underneath what
you haf TO do the next Friday night
-oration or debate, or maybe just
read from some old book or something.
| guess we got TO stand up there and
try, anyway"
IAN right" said Ramsey, "lf they
want me To commit suicide they can
send me one o. their ole Assignments,
won't need Ia commit suicide, though,
guess All I'll do. I'll just fall over