New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
A YuIetide
TWOSOme
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collapsed bellows. lie has convex hsuie
now but can stand longer hours Of work
than any member Of the authors trane'
"Our families had been acquainted TOT
a generation or two in the Middle west
4 blood brother Of mine was a fraternity
brother Of his and had written to me re-
ouestine that I look out for Harrington
renlied that / would take care Of his young
friend. but secretly assumed that despite
n,v brothers enthusiasm. this fresh junior,
like most Of the fellows one was enJoiheu
:, "lool up" would prove TO be bore y
few davs later received this telegram
".Not Parkington, but Harrington
GOOD naturedly wired back: All right'
Harrington will try to remember
Il will say this for myself: It dld not
t.ke me long. no longer than 1t takes 10
walk from the lobby Of the Nassau Inn TO
Reunion Hall. to discover that tins queer
loolino' fresh Junior was a find. And the
more | saw OF him the more It was borne
in upon me that he was about the pest
comnanv in the world. But # course
was Young and inexperienced IN those
days. Since then ! have met nearly All
the interesting people there are IN tne
United States, and some in other countries
have not yet changed that opinion.
sbould merely like 20 have the opportunity
70 test it oftener. But on the entirely TOO
infreouent occasions when he swings INTO
my orbit either down in Princeton or here
in New York, there are always 50 many
others who share my view OF the matter
He has more friends than any one | know
and they're an awful nuisance to me.
"Wen. Tark-he soon became known
throughout the campus world as 'Tark
and is still so called by large majority
OF the male population Of the rest OF the
world-Tark did not need coaching about
College Life very long, from me or any
one else. He took 10 il as naturally as
bird TO flying, fourd his wings at once
and SCARED high We early discovered
that he had not only charm, but talent, ana
il was hard to tell where it would break
out next. That La prize was only the
first Of many honors-indeed, doubt If 1t
were the first, for | think he made the
Glce Club earlier in the term. He made
all sorts of things. He could not only sing
but act He made the Triangle Club also.
He not only wrote but drew, became an
editor Of the Lit and Of the Tiger too.
1t was quite unprecedented m those days
to belong to two editorial boards at once.
| believe there was some conservative
head shaking over it.
characteristic glimpses come back to
me as / write. It is not in pages OF
memory but in pictures that We find our
friends as they used to be, mental kodaks
snapped when they and we were unaware
Of il: Dressed in brown SUR, hands in
pockets, shoulders stopped over, chest IN,
and with the characteristic aura Of cigar
cite smoke, he is standing all alone out IN
front of Reunion, watching the crowd go
by with an expression Of bland absorp-
ton, almost hero-worshiping regard on
his sensitive face.
81 distinctly recall the occasion Of his
first after-dinner speech, because it was
the occasion of mine. II was Lit din
ner, perhaps the first one, the beginning
Of an old custom, for all know. At any
rate il must have been when he was
senior and l was a graduate student, be-
cause McCready Sykes, '94, was presiding
with such arrogant aplomb that it filled
us. both his seniors, with admiration and
despair. can't remember Tarkington's