The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-03-23

blhSkl was ms cd, resigned from
the university aud ,Isnppcnrcd
We'll here II Isn't midycar Exams
yet and III" good MI, class of Nineteen
EightconS already lost n member"
said Fred Mitchell 81 guess we can
bear the break up"
~ guess So" Ramsey assented
THAT Iinski might just rs well stayed
here though"
"Why"
"IIc couldn't do any harm here. He'll
prob'ly got more people to listen to
HIN In cities where there's 81 many
new immigrants aud all such that
don't know anything. comm in all the
time"
"Oh, we'll" said Fred. "What do
we care what happens to Chicago
Come ON. let's behave renl wild. and
go on over 10 the TERRA aud get us n
couple Of egg sandwiches and sass
prllly"
Ramsey was willing.
After the strain Of the mid year
Exams In February. the chums lived
II free hearted life. They had settled
into the ways of their world: they had
grown used to II, and II had grown
used Ia them; there was no longer any
ignouiny In being freshman They
romprd upon the campus and some
times rioted harmleSsly about the
streets Of the town. In the evenings
they visited their fellows aud brethren
and were visited in turn; horseplay
prevailed, hut collegiate gossip had its
turn, and sometimes they looked so
far ahead rs ~ talk vaguely Of their
though to n freshman this concerned
an almost unthinkably dlHam pros
poet. II guess I'll go in with my fa
Their, in the wholesale drug business"
said Fred. "My married brother al
ready is In the firm, ana | suppose
they'll give me "a show-send me out
OIL the road year or two first maybe.
to try me. Then I'm going to marry
some little cutie and settle down
What you goin' to do. Ramsey Go to
law school, and then come back and
go in your fathers Officer
II don't know. Guess So"
II was always Fred who did most Of
the talking Ramsey was quiet. Fred
told the frat seniors" that Ramsey
was developing II whole lot these
days" and he told Ramsey himself
that hc could see II big change in
him, adding that tn. Improvement was
probably due TO RanSey'S having
passed through terrible trials like
that debate"
Ramsey kept to their rooms more
than his cnmrade did. one reason for
this domesticity being that he had
10 study longer than Fred did. to keep
up" and another reason may have
been a greater shync>s than Fred pos
SeSsed-if. indeed. Fred possessed any
ShyncSs AT all. For Fred was u CHEEKY
spirit difficult to abash. aud by the
coming of spring knew all Of the best
looking girl students in the place
knew chem well enough. il appeared.
Ia speak Of them not merely by their
first names hut by Authorizations Of
these, lie had become fashions Sprig.
Il "fusScr" and butterfly. and he re-
preached his roommate for stunning
the ladies
well, the truth is. Fred" said Ram
>ey one day responding darkly-''well
YOU see the truth j.. Fred. I've had
Awe had an experience"
So, only, did he refer to Mt!la
Fred said no more and it was com
pretended between them that the past
need never be- definitely referred 10
again, hui that II stood between Ram
Sey and any entertainment To be- oh
talned of the gentler hut less trust
worthy sex. And when other brethren
Of the first" would have pressed Ram
Sry 10 join them in various frivolous
concerning "cu-edS' or to
he shared by "co-eds," Fred thought II
better Ia explain tn them privately
(all being sacred among hreihren) how
l,amscN'S life - far as Girls went,
had been toyrd with by one now
Married Woman
This created II great deal of respect
Tor Ramsey II h'raur" understood
eVeryN here that he was II woman
hater.