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Degrees meant little then to those not trying for professions, but the college had some clout downtown. That place in Buntyn was a teachers’ school. Here was little Princeton on the bluff — the riverback | mean, and if they heard of us up North, we'd say, ‘‘Well, hell, we lost the Civil War.” 50: Mine was the generation of the war. | don’t know that I’d have made it here without the Gl Bill. The cold war thing was scary, but we felt our limit was the sky, and | guess we did quite well before the OPEC troubles came. Some of us could go to Europe several times. | wasn’t one of them. | saved to go. It seemed too big a deal for me. | know there was a death’s head in our yard, a modesty of chances, depression, kids, enlisted men. To have it pretty good made us feel guilt. Our own kids might feel the world owed them a living, but we kept touch with suffering, just a little bit. 30: Yes, my son was quite a lot like that. He’s all stooped over, glum. He teaches music in a public school. No guts, | say, and | believe you have a low opinion of yourself, like him. What do you do? 750: Oh, | teach English in a public school. Wife: Don’t let’s squabble, Ernest, on this day. We’re lucky to be alive, in health today, and we know plenty people high up on the hog in alcoholic wards, full of bluff, with not a shred of modesty. If our son feels low, it’s just because he feels he’s failed in art, to be a concert pianist, his dream. Turns out he’s a teacher, could be worse. 70: | don’t think | understand these things. Man, | just do and everything’s okay. | was into drugs, | was in a commune, | tried ‘| Ching’ and Zen, | spent a while in jail, | can’t think what for. My grades at Southwestern were not so good, yet | got in the Stanford Law School, don’t ask me how. I’ve had a year in old Bologna, that’s where law study started. | don’t get down. If | get ‘“‘No’’ someplace, | go somewhere else. Like, they might even take you in a job because they’re tired of having you apply, but | don’t need that anymore, I'll find a way. Freshman Woman: What I'd like to know is has Southwestern meant anything to you particularly? Did you gain or lose for your four years here? 30: | see our answers to that will reflect what you young people call our “‘lifestyle.”’ In the nineteen twenties college had got fashionable. Football had got popular. Beanies, ukeleles, rumble seats of cars — these were symbols of the fun a well-off father could afford. You couldn’t be too serious if you wanted friends. You’d grow up later. Professors then, they understood all that, but | admit that two or three of them got to me, so that | caught a glimpse of hat it was they found so all-absorbing in cheir reading or their labs. | told myself I'd go their way someday, that is, to think with master-spirits, true men of the mind- and women too, a little bit, for | did dare to marry a woman who had a sharper head than mine and she has taught me much. We’ve read each other many books, debated more things than we quarrelled angrily about. In deeper things together Southwestern made us studious for life. I’m sorry now | can’t call back those profs to tell ’em thanks. Wife: | could second that with sweet coy looks or find something to argue with, or simply talk some more to hear myself wax talkative. It seems to me he speaks for me ... at last. 50: | had been indifferent to studies =
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