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THE HESPERIAN
which ho may stick largo pins hidon with the
historical facts, his interior will not contain.
Of great importance next, is the rock-ribbed
senior who studies philosophy. Ho, of all,
is the most open to pity. It takes walls of
granite to hold his mind in shape. It is re
lated that a post mortem examination of
such a senior's brain once revealed 1,789
molecules of memory pressed together so
hard that they had crystalized and had
formed a brilliant of exceeding beauty.
But of all the seniors who ondoavor to
fight for a standing of sixty per cent, those
who cultivate the imagination are most for
tunate. They simply sit and open the por
tals of tho mind and let the confusion un
tangle itself of its own accord. They, in
tho course of time will bo able to train their
dreams to study for them. The senior with
a properly anchored imagination, and who
can explain all complexities arising from di
gressions of that some factor by an em
phasized "I know," is all right in this
world. He is bound to follow literature
"with some success."
Tho last and most practical class in his
own estimation, is the acid-covered senior.
Ho is acidulous not from nature but from
necessity. Ho always has his retort ready,
and can receive as much pleasure from a
piece of fried iron as from a silco of beef
steak. He is a combination, explosive,
volatile, precious, precious above all.
Many species of these genera might be
named but space forbids. All classes have
tho same general tendency to remain un
squelched. They rise like the Phoenix from scorching
trials and refuse to bo downed. This trait
will help them in lite if not too greatly cul
tivated. A little of it, however, goes a long
way. The senior on graduation has experi
enced a miniature reproduction of life.
Four years in a university correspond to tho
four periods in one's career. How well
the alumnus succeeds in his chosen work is
largely due to what tho senior extracts from
his university education. If his growth has
been a real evolution, he has profited. If
ho views, dejected, tho empty purse, he has
tho consolation of fooling a head on his
shoulders which is full of knowledge. lie
will never, when in his right mind, cry:
"Two thousand dollars worth of ideas in this
cranium and scacro that many conts for
revenue, " without being conscious of the
evident falsohood of that assertion.
They Two.
A Romance.
Along the tree-lined borders of the Hlue they
walked. He and She. Alone.
Tho Blue is not ordinarily a very inspir
ing Ptream; its waters have not that tint of
crystalline azure that would justify its allur
ing name; nor has it that sweep and depth
that in other regions accompany tho proud
title of "river." But those who were gaz
ing along its banks in scattered groups wore
used, most of them, only to Nebraska rivers;
and perhaps, too, tho exhiloration of tho
day and week and tho excitement of their
spirits affected their judgment for wore
they not soon to be no longer students but
"young men" and "young women," in
earnest, as their baccalaureate lecturer would
tell them? To-day they thought tho Blue
"river" a fine river; they thought Milford
picturesque, though humble; they, or at
least tho young ladies, thought tho scenery
"divine." They drew inspiration from tho
hour and tho occasion. Ho and She in par
ticular had felt, and had been thrilled by the
thought, that this week was not to bo to
them like other weeks, nor this day liko
other days. Each folt'that now, if over, tho
crisis would arrive.
Ho glanced now and then at tho brow, a
littlo puckered from repeated consultations
of classical dictionaries, at the firm set
mouth and dainty dress of tho petite brunette
bosido him, and it seemed to him that she
had never boon more charming. Ho recog
nized tho airy grace of her movements. Ho
recalled the slight sarcastic expression that
was wont to draw down the corners of her
small mouth when something happened to