treatment of me, for I had not offended her in any way thgt I
knew
"I spent the next year, as you know, in an art school, and I tried
my best, but complications arose and I found at the end of teri
months that I had made little progress. Then I was told that my
chum was expecting to enter a preparatory school at a distant col
lege in the fall. I decided to go with him. We did no planning,
but when the college opened we were both on hand, fresh as a
pair of country farmers could be, just ripe for an old-fashioned
hazing.
"I finished my course and am now a full fledged A. B. I re
turned home and soon met Nellie, but she was as cold as ever, even
my being captain of the college eleven had not had any effect upon
her, and she treated me with a demeanor which meant only too
plainly, 'I don't want you to come to see me.'
"I obtained an assistant professOrship in my college, and will go
to work again this fall. I have endeavored in every way possible
to avoid meeting Miss Carbery, for now I suppose that is the name
I should give her, and I sincerely hope and wish that my destiny
take me far from any chance of seeing Nellie as anyone else's help
mate in the long race of life, for—
"Of all the words of tongue and pen
The saddest are these—lt might have been.' "
FOR THE YOUNG GEOLOGIST.
Trilobite, graptolite, nautilus pie,
Seas were calcareous, islands were dry;
Eocene, miocene, pliocene tuff,
Lias and trias and that is enough.
It is true that the subject of college song has been dwelt upon at
considerable length among the college magazines of late, but we
For Me Young Geologist.
EDITORIAL.
P., 'O4.