Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-04-27

enI whom April thirrielh-hAve
looked upon the semester as never
ending are suddenly awakened t rean-
win be m exodus and the great build
ingx viii become mere hollow shells
And this May day was perfect A
brilliant sun smiled ae<a tresH n aH-
feeked sky: spring flowers peeped
firtatiously from the hIIlsides; groups
OF students loIled under the trees chat
ting idIy-or not talking 1T all 1t
wHs u day for dreaming, for Idly
wandering thoughts
Twelve hundred students OF both
r succumbed TO the spell. Worries
were dissipated- Spring had corae late
to this ~ieweIHke campus OF Mariand
university In midAlabamas but had
stoned. In the glory OF its coming, for
MI It's hardness
Over ON the hin q scant quarter
mile beyond the Bowl stood the worn
ems dormitory. and Immediately be
fore IL Was d lilac bush in radiant bios
som. A girl stepped from the hall
vay into the sunlight and pansed By
the lilac bush Then, with the as
sured d~eiisersffon OF senior. she
proceeded to violate a college rule
Antolnetfe peyton picked a spray
OF lilac plneked The finwer badly. in
different to any eyes which might be-
hold her Then she cared across a
tiny, vertant valley toward the knoll
upon which were situated the aez-
demEc buildings of the university.
Tony peyten was q pretty girl She
was more than 4 pretty girl There
! was strength OF character La her vivid
face with its tiEg. scarlet mouth and
great. lnstrous black eyes She gave
m impression OF gorgeous vitality
She touched the slrig OF lilac to her
mouth-and smiled She smiled into
the sprig. and the campus smiled back
Mt her
She stared on across the tops Of the
pine trees toward the knoll On which
the academic buildings reared their
imposing FORMS All OF . pattern. red
brick and white one nine OF them
standing like f~ndonitabIe sentInels
about the natural stadium which had
been converted into the Bowl Mar
land wasn't 4 big eoIIege-its total
dred-ttut IT was proud Its campus
wa mellow with rich southern rrasii-
ton. its archives yielded records CT
undergraduates who had gone OFT IN
the FIRST bitter days OF VT to Join the
Confederate forces In the hall of Old
Main was its World var roll Of homer.
There were records too. CT graduates
who had risen tn positions Of Inc
porfance i'm the fields OF science and
art
And perhaps the students attached
Just n wee biz TOO much importance
To the ~esnineTre recently achieved by
the Mariand football and track teams
Just n little bit tao much ~irnTssr-
tanre but this morning Tony
Peyton could understand that. because
as she looked down into the almost
empty Bowl she saw In her minds
ere a picture which had impressed
Itself IndelibIy upon her eighteen
months before when MarHarads great
est ~gridIron team under rfae leadership
OF Larry WeIch. had smashed and bat
tered Its way to a legitimate rlaffa 10
the mythical national championship
That had been a day. twenty fho1-
sand fanatics gone wild In the Bowl
4 riot of color and a weller OF
sound
Tony glanced Mt her wrist watch
and sighed With a conscious effort
she rid herself of the spell With 4
quick eager stride she started down
the hin into the WALLER which nust he
crossed before one could mount the
other hfn-fhe hill upon which the cod
lege buildings stood
She moved through the tiny valley.
head thrown back sprig of lilac held
in her right hand LIPS nsorIng slightly
"A she humned a popular melody THE
magic OF the day was upon her and
she approached the HID with = feeling
OF reluctance that the spell must be
broken
And then quite suddenly she
stopped Just before her WIS = huge
oak tree Tony knew that particular
tree. II xtood sentinel before 4 forest
mock aHecfionztelJ known by MI stu
dents 1t Narland as the Bower, i
tiny. secluded spot sheltered by giant
trees. earpefed with viofefs and EN-
lowered In hoDeysuckle-
Voices came to her from that nook
voices o. = man and = girl Tony's
teeth pressed tight together and !
startled. worried expression leaped
Into her eyes. She was afrxfd-but
she wasn't Eure-
A man In ~yonder-wifh a girl Moth
Ing In that to dixpei the glory u the
aay. II would have been = matter fer
more wonder had the Rover been
u~noccupied- But she fanried that SHE
knew the voices the man's voice,
the girls sweetIy xhriil anxwerx Then
there Was silence
Tony wxs OF no mind to interrupt
1 campus ROMANCE UnlesM She
remained motionie$s for several min
utes. her fxce n study In worried ron