The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-04-13

did become serious enough to point
out that university was different
from high school.
''It's not like havin' TO use ore. h!g
room as headquarters. you know.
Ramsey. Everything's all split up. and
she might happen not be In single
one of your classes"
You don't know my luckv' the af.
ficted boy protested. II wish I'd gone
to Harvard. the way my father wanted
me to. Why. this is just the worst
nuisance I ever struck You'll see!
She'll be in everything there is, just
the way she was back home"
He appeared to he corroborated by
the events of the next day. when they
attended the first meeting to organize
the new class. The masculine ele-
ment predominated. but Dora Yocum
was elected vice president. "You
see?" Ramsey said. "Didn't tell
you? You see what happensT'
But after that she ceased for time
to intrude upon his life. and he admit
ted that his harassmcnt was less grave
than he had anticipated. There were
about five hundred students In the
freshman class; he seldom saw her,
and when he did 1t was not more than
distant glimpse of her on one of
the campus paths, her thoughtful head
bent over book as she hurried to a
classroom. This was bearable; and in
the flattering agitations Of being
sought, and even hunted, by several
''fraternities" simultaneously DESTROYS
of his becoming a sworn Brother, he
almost forgot her, After hazardous
month the roommates 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 at
midnight, they proudly wore jeweled
| symbols on their breasts and were
free to turn part of their attention
to other affairs, especially the affairs
Of the Eleven.
However, they were instructed by
the older brethren of their Order.
whose duty it was to assist in the
proper maneuvering 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 doings. Therefore they be-
came members of the college Y. nj. c.
A. and of the "Lumen Society"
According to the charter which it
had granted itself, the "Lumen Soci-
ETY." was an Organization of male
and female students"-so advanced
was this university-"for the develop
merit 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
A statement so formidable was not
without hushing effect upon Messrs
Milholland and MITCHELL; they went
to their first "Lumen" meeting in a
| SJdl0 VI lcuI anu SdlHS away Ht.iN
treasured.
| II couldn't get up there" Ramsey
declared, II 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"
"Well, the way I understand it,
said Fred, 1--WE can't get out of it. The
seniors in the frat said we had tt
join, and they said we couldn't resign
either, after we had Joined. They
said we just had to 60 through it, and
after while we'd get used to 1t and
not mind it so much"
II will" Ramsey insisted. u
couldn't any more stand up there or
my feet and get to spoutin' about
sociology and the radical metempsy
chorus of the metaphysical bazoozun
than l could fly a flynn machine. Why
l."
"Oh, that wasn't anything" Free
interrupted. 'The only one that talked
like that, he was that Dickens; he's
tutor, or something, and really
member of the faculty. Most O thu
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