Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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ii he was a licked mortal — but he didn ' t know it, and that ' s where the possibility of a story comes in. He explained to me that he was one of the mil- lion tiiat go out into tiic world every June with a bucket of red paint, and intend to tint the zodiac a warm rose color. His specialty, as his sheep-skin assured pros- pective clients who didn ' t arrive, was juggling the revised statutes and keeping beef trusts out of jail. But he had struck out. Nobody needed him, so his bank book told him. He wasn ' t cut out for the law. Yea, verily. The biggest coin ever minted is a man ' s last dollar, my visitor informctl me, and from tiie looks of him, 1 guess he had some first-iiand in- formation. Where do I come in? I asked naively. You are the man who is to get me a job, you see, came his explanation. What can you do? I entured. Anything, from launciiing a battleship to greasing the tracks on a siiueaky turn. I liked his sand and called up a friend of mine. He was the office manager of a concern that could spend a million, but — watched the nickels. We don ' t need anybody, he answered. I told my visitor the bad news. All right, he replied, I ' ll take the next car. No, tiianks, no money. 1 have enough to get up there. That ' s all I ' ll need. I ' m going to land. And he did. To-day lie came do n to uork, I suppose, in Jiis o n motor-car — at least lie could have if he Furtiiermore, lie is making good witii a big G. Tlie man wlio did not have the nerve to turn iiim down says so — and tlie boss gets his informa- tion from the cash drawer. Three cheers for the fellow who knew how to guard his goat — for verily this is the secret of get- ting y(.)ur meal ticket. In three vears after vou are out of college you will agree with me. Just make a mental note of that. L, DJIAMAJ

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iMMS . Ol i€ . ' ' i GOAT O M 1, R M c K THERE arc- two kinds of men, the is licked before he starts and tiie starts after he is licked. Of the two, the former are in the v; ow who One afternoon last fall a chap owning two college ow ho degrees came into my office with his cufifs scram- bled on the edges and his hair straggling. From lajoritv. the moment that he shadowed mv door I knew that ii!H: J

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IDL GEOLOGY liV F L O - D M A c C; R I GEOLOGY is one of the great endurance tests in the curriculum. A student who has made one year ' s credit in geology can go nine days without water, sleep with snakes in his bed, or speak pleasantly to his best girl when she is wast- ing her time walking about the campus with some animated clothes model. Some students sign up in geology to qualify for graduation by having a suf- ficient quota of credits in science. After the cred- its are made a student feels as if he could qualify for anything from memorizing an unabridged dic- tionary to clipping nine seconds off the transconti- nental walking record. Li order to be a good geology student one should have an affable dispo- sition toward prehistoric life, a battered suit of clothes, an unfaltering set of legs, and an inter- minable railroad ticket. The ticket is for use in case of a punctured foot. The most succulent por- tions of the geology student ' s joy are served on Sat- urdays in the nature of field hikes. A field trip is a tour of investigation, conducted on foot, of the various rock formations located in neighboring states. The leader of a geology excursion strikes boldly across the campus into the distant horizon. That gives you some idea of his speed. All along his trail are scattered the geology students. At various inspection points tiie leader pauses long enough for the nearest student to catch up with him and then he explains things. Most of the ex- cursion class is in the distant rear helping the girls over the fences and rivers and fervently praying for second wind. The nearest student and the man with the kodak always make good grades. This is about the regular procedure of a geology hike. The students and the prof are generally to- gether at the starting place and the lunch period, the students contenting themselves at other times with the faint image of their instructor disappear- ing over the summit of some distant hill. At the noon-hour the students catch up with their heart- beats, take a caressing inventory of their injured anatomies, and speculate upon the distance to the nearest railroad station. After enough time has elapsed for the students to get nicely stififened up, the leader marshals the forces and without the slightest sign of fatigue, leads them nine miles out of the way home to show them a hillock similar to the one shown on page 614 in the textbook. Ar- riving at familiar scenes again, the indefatigable nearest student gets himself ready for a dance, with the assistance of four roommates, while the rest of the class go to bed and sleep past their Monday morning eight o ' clocks. X ii- ' r J