The record of the class of 1914 . chief social danger liesin the suspicion of insincerity. And well it may, for the modern manwho defends the defenseless and strives for the well nigh miattain-ahle, mutt be touched—to be sure—with either insanity or you will note, in his open features, his resigned acceptance ofthe most thankless job in college. To avoid the current phrase let ussay John should he perplexed. So long as he sows the seeds of thehigher life at Preston every Sunday,devotes his afternoons to the coach-ing of scrub teams, and his evenings to equally unprofitable for
The record of the class of 1914 . chief social danger liesin the suspicion of insincerity. And well it may, for the modern manwho defends the defenseless and strives for the well nigh miattain-ahle, mutt be touched—to be sure—with either insanity or you will note, in his open features, his resigned acceptance ofthe most thankless job in college. To avoid the current phrase let ussay John should he perplexed. So long as he sows the seeds of thehigher life at Preston every Sunday,devotes his afternoons to the coach-ing of scrub teams, and his evenings to equally unprofitable forms ofaltruism we shall not question his motives. John has had stages,like the rest of us, from the social gallant, through the studious lifeto the calm reflective temperament beyond. He is to-day our onlythoroughbred classicist, having absorbed all the Latin and Greek incollege. Of his other powers we may speak to better advantage whenwe have seen their effect upon our British rivals in the victoriouscricket invasion of JESSE PAUL GREEN ? -MLSl-:- A man of iron, tliu niudesty of a Lanili ami the tcnipcraincnt of a Lanier, Jess rushed in wlierc angels feared to tread,and it is thanks to him that you are now reading this pretty hook. Little did vyc think in Ircshman year as to the altitudesto which he was to attain, hut ere Sophomore year the liusliel had hecn eharred hy the light that it concealed and less stoodforth a Uiminary of the first magnitude. .\s to athletic prowess, has he not heen a hright jjarticular star upon the track,and did not seecral men trip oyer his hig feet in the intercollegiate soccer games? As to cultivation of the arts, vyas henot a bulwark of the HiiTcrfordiaii and Oscar Hammersteins chief (and last) pro])? A Napoleon of executiyc ahility, onJunior Day, he was to he seen in fifty-scyen places sinuiltaneously, as useful in one as in another, Yel there are eyen deejierdepths of altruism to which this spirit plunges. inlierited tendency to
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