The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-01
BY Upton Sinclair
CHAPTER TEN
THE UNIVERSITY

THE UNIVERSITY
Southern Pacific University launched by Cali
forna Methodist Sunday school, its professors
were all required to be Methodsts Of
gous grown enormous upon the Of an
king bbed half dozen successive governments In
United States being therefore in doubt to
the safety of his SOUL large sums to professional soul
gave equally Prosants and they used
the money to denounce and undermine each other.
Dad had known that his educated by the
donations of Pete ORey amused
and raud Not knowing about it, he paid visit to the place
outside Bunnys future environment The
university in the suburbs of Angel City, but
community grown around (which meant another
large endowment contributed by all rentpayers Its buildings
elaborate which impressed Dad the fact that they
crowded with five thousand and women impressed
him still for when Dad number of people doing
the thing he concluded it was normal and safe.
Still reassurng his meeting with President Aonzo
T. Cowper D. D., Phi d. L. L. D., For Dr. Cowper in the
interviewing had been selected by his million
his skill interviewing trustees Dr.
Cowper knew how scholar could be at the same time dgned
and deferena Our Dad being thoroughly
mind completely he had been inside it,
this founder OF Ross Consodated pleased with the education
his receives he day donate building the teach
ing oil chemistry least endow chair of research in oil
geology That seemed to Dad exactly the proper attitude for
take everybody in the world in the
business of getting money and this heightened
Both Dad and Bunny took the university with the seriousness
Neither of them doubted that which had been
gained by substituting political parties and bbng legislators and
executive officials and judges and such money could
be turned at into the highest type of culture wholesale by
and credits he raced from English ga to Spanish and from
there Sociology and Modern History A. and accumulated
slowed in his mind mass of dates and other details.
took him long time realize that the English"
cruelty dull that the young who taught bored
by what doing that the Spanish had
accent and that the professor secretly paronng bootleg
console himself having live what he
barbarans Sociology an struc
of clasicaons wholly artificial devised gentle
search of something to be learned about and that the
Modern History taught from textbooks which
the scrutiny of thousands of sharp spare
the sensibles of Mr. OReily and avoid giving
student the slightest hint concerning the forces which
the modern world
With equal Bunny the life of this
institution wonderful goal to which
all high school students had looked lucky got
there and he among them His
who senior and belonged to the best possible fraternity
the word spoken and Bunny They
FAST reespendng crowd aggressive seconfdent sangy
voube the prospects Of this years Bunny
they had for welcoming him
presentabe than his old mans oil.
Like western universities Southern Pacific was co-edu
catona Bunny exposed the impact
nn the distilled and concentrated of aremen
costumes the color of Brazilian butterflies kaleidoscope
OF smiles and flashing perpetual zephyr of
OF aorn orange and emon-orchards Something bound
to happen to ideals such evronmentespecay
when he had just the summer training
only
follow the market reports Ross Consolidated
they her-appar
ent of the Paradise oil field Many of quick wits
upon h ne invited to of dances and hum
deds OF fudge parties and thousands of rides
strange rumor spread here unmagnabe phenomenon
young millionaire who would "petr
speweavers Pacific vain before long
there odds posted quite would
be the first girl that Bunny Ross would were
conducted in the Beach City high that
the oil prince carried in his bosom heart which
OF course made him romantic figure and added enormously
his prestige
ITO Be contnued)