Evening star., 1926-10-31

portals gives Cupid a vast
field for his archery. Some
Il how, the soil Of the campus
saeme particularly adapted
Toe the growth Of romance.
Unfortunately, this condition has
brought dismay to many parents.
The gay, green campus, they con-
tend. does not afford as sane and
TesscE!ble setting for a marriage
proposal as the graver, grayer back
creund Of life.
Doesn't 1t. though? Is it not here
nat friends in the friend-forming
period may be made together? Is it
10. here that memories for the
n,eaSantcr. reminiscent moments of
life may be stored up together? Is
i not here that interests, leading
20 future of cooperation, are ac-
uuired together?
Washington is on the side of the
college romance. In the lives OF it's
most eminent public men. in whose
professions 4 wife's helpfulness is OF
paramount importance, it has found
favor.
Yet none Of these present-day sue
ceSses had much more than their
hearts and ambitions to offer the eco
eds" OF their choice.
Secretary Of Commerce Herbert
Hoover ran laundry for the stu
dents and still had a condition in
English when he wooed Miss Lou
Henry at Leland Stanford. Jr.. more
han a quarter Of a century ago.
Secretary of Agriculture William NJ.
!;,ldine proffercd Miss Effie Nebeker
he hand that was punching cows"
for an education at the Agricultural
College of Utah.
When the late Senator Robert NJ.
"a Toilette escorted Miss Belle Case
10 the performances Of Edwin Booth
and Lawrence Barrett, he took her
from The campus at the University
Of Wisconsin all the way up to the
gallery ri the Madison Theater. And
when Senator Thomas ID. Schall
ccurted Miss Margaret Huntley,
coed at the University Of Mime
~uta, he had to lurl1 outside until
friend produced her. in order to es-
cape the Indignation Of her parents
as q suitor who beat rugs and stocked
fires for Il knowledge Of the law.
DLODDING up the Santa Cruz
Mountains on geological ex-
reditions. Herbert Hoover and Miss
!Ienry paved the way for subse-
,,uent Joint Observation-Disclosures
IF the original Latin mining treaties
fn"N nan IISl Seeh III NN0 No'VSN
laboratory.
Attending the faculty reception at
,he 4. G u, BIZ Jardine and Miss
Nebeka, discovered the value of con
tact between professor and student,
which knowledge contributed in max
fa. the home OF the future college
president the most popular spot on
ihc campus.
Robert NJ. La Follette's partner in
the gallery became known through
out the country as his partner IN
politics. Studying together on the
hanks Of the Mississippi prepared
Miss Huntlew for her literary and
Aecretarial services to the blind SEN
ttOr.
secretary TO the President Everett
flanders, whose marriage to coed
If the Indiana State Normal School
was deferred by "A blizzard from the
twelfth to the thirteenth, has since
-nund l3 TO he his lucky number
On the thirteenth he became a mem,
Der of the Knights of Pythias and
he was one of the u men Sehl 10
congress by Indiana.
Athletics, condemned for their pr1-
n.jty in the college curriculum today,
seem to have been awarded a prom
irent place in the college program
nf a generation and more ago. They
certainly played a part in the lives
If the potential Jardines, Sanders
and Schalls. Mrs. Jardine first saw
lnr husband on the gridlron. Though
,he little farmer college usually lost
10 It's overpoWering stanford ana
colorado opponents. Bill Jardine al
Ways scored and Effie Nebeker was
always there 10 sec him do II.
base bail game was the mrs
Sanders.
eiriued tic tthe only one he had'. anC
Miss Ella Neal. in Il pink wash frocl-
with ruftleS and q I.eShorn hat, er :
lnyed together. A base BAH damon
:,Iso served as the vantase-groufd
for Margaret Huntley's first view OF
ThomaS SChan.
bill" .Jardine had come 10 college
from the Big Hole country OF NON
.ana. where he had been Il COW h and.
nispleased with the many chores he,
rs the kid" of the gang, was gwen,
, decided to abandon farming and
l,ccome an engineer. When he ar
wed at the campus, containing but
p main building, Il few SHOPS. the
PRESIDENTS residence, the dorfmtofF
and the horse barn. he thought ne
had come to Il metropolis In an
:.ttempt to obtain lodgings he was
taken aback at the rents demanded
JTe refused to squander one OF the
eight twenty-dollar gold pieces he
had earnee for his education and was
fortunately invited to spend the might
at the presidents home.
Fife Neheker was the daughter OF
n ranchman, too, but she was ""ne or
7he four hundred" in the school OF
half that Number OF students. Al
though PHI" Jardine soon became Il
leader in the school and the oufStand-
ing player on the foot ball team, he
ever dreamed of an intimacy with
she gentle, much admired student OF
ltOme economics.