Evening star., 1934-12-30
New Year, New Girl

- NOW blanseted the Warwick campus.
gave the tower of Memorial Hall
absurd cap which had from its own
weight, slipped down a bit on the
j smooth slate roof.
Warwick College, q section of War
wickton usually alive at this hour of the day,
was now quiet and muf1ed. There were only
few struggling footprints on the snow, but at
the upper end of the little campus old Sander
son. the janitor had attached a dilapidated
mare to the wooden SNOWY wedge and begun a
wide, deep path which originated at the Science
Building and meandered uncertainty across the
campus.
Pete Samson, attired in cords stuffed into
leather hiking boots mulishly ignored the path
which Sanderson and the mare were making at
such effort. He had struck out from the Delt
House across a strip of hitherto untrammeled
snow. Behind him he left deep, fresh, positive
gaSheS
The beakness Of the scene was matched by
Pete'S general mood at the moment. He could
think of no place he would rather not be than
the Warwick campus on New Year eve.
Being plopped down in the middle of the
Warwick Winter holidays, which began on De-
cember % and did not terminate until the third
day of the new year, was like being stranded
desert island. Pete had just conf1ded as
much to Carey Griffin, who was marooned with
him at the fraternity houSe-the only two Delts
who hadn't gone home for the holidays.
CAREY'S reason was that his home was
~ too far away His parents lived in Homo
lulu. which Carey affirmed place in
which to spend Christmas and the first day of
the new year, anyhow.
mo snow" he informed Pete succinctly.
"We've got too much snow. You ought to
ship some over to your folks, just for a remem-
brance."
You don't seem to like being here during the
Christmas holidays. GOSH" Carey sighed hap
PLY. II think it's swell. All this house to our
selves and no upper classmen to be ordering
poor freshman around"
Don't forget I'm an upper classman and IL
you don't stop being so delighted with the fact
that I'm cooped up here, I'll slap on the house
rules and start ordering you around myself.
You like it because you don't have to stay. You
could pick up and go to the coast to visit your
uncle. don't see why you don't"
Because I've got to stay here and keep you
from committing suicide" said Carey sweety.
whats the matter? Hasn't the delicious Bet
tina written you since she left the campuS?"
"She sent me a Christmas present. She
she never writes letters"
Maybe she can't remarked Carey anx-
iously Then at sight of Petes scowl he added:
st mean wouldn't be surprised If she couldn't;
she's darned pretty. You know the old say
ing Beautiful and dumb? If it's true. then
Betty would be" awfuly dumb, because she's
sure-"
shut up" Pete said, and stalked out of the
house and across the campus, where Sanderson
and the mare were blowing jets of steam into
the wintry air.
No doubt about it, Pete told himself, War
wickton was no place for a college student on
New Year eve The town wasn't big enough to
be the kind of place where crowds poured into
the streets at midnight with confetti and noise
makers and gay meetings. Nope, tonight War
wickton would be quiet as fraternity house at
3 o'clock Sunday morning.
There'd be some parties. of course, but Pete
hadn't been invited to any of them yet, and
probably wouldn't. Then maybe the church
bells would ring at midnight. But that would
be all. And the quietest place in the quiet town
would be the Warwick campus.
Well, it was just his hard luck-the hard luck
of guy who couldn't afford to go home and
who had to stay in town to hold his part-time
job at Coolers cigar store, SO he could con-
tinue in school. Pete showed his hands In his
pockets and began to whistle hoping that might
help But it didn't. There was still the fact
that Carey was right, and Betty hadn't written
so much as line.
OF COURSE, she'd be too busy to write.
~ She lived in a big town where the vaca-
tioning collegians would be throwing lot OF
holiday parties OF course, there'd be one to-
night.
''Dont be a sap he muttered to himself.
"You couldn't expect her to sit home and pine
iust because YOU can't be there Still, she
might have dropped him New Year card. She