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the slate" not only insured the young ladies regular escorts but broke the youths at an early period to the systematic attendance upon the fair sex that naturally leads to life-long constancy. No formal balls were held by the students at this time and only a little semi-clandestine dancing was indulged in at class meetings and other affairs held in private houses. Romantic talk was stimulated by the moonlight, a course, and yet as the couples moved to and from the campus for classes and for the society meetings, an immense amount of converse on deep and high and earnest themes was common. I cannot recall one sandal or the suggestion of a scandal in the six years. The sons and daughters of the pioneers, some of them fresh from the sod houses on the homesteads, were catching their first glimpses of the glories of the ancient and the modern world. It was an enchanting and inspiring time. There wasn't a foot of pavement in two hundred miles and the automobile was not even a dream. But the old red brick main building was as beautiful as the Parthenon, and O street, though built of wood and sun-dried bricks, could have been surpassed in attractiveness by the marble palaces of Rome.
No college can too young to be infected by student mischief and lawlessness. It began here in the revolt against military drill and in The Hesperian Student type-stealing riots for several years before and after 1880. These were political affairs, undertaken with solemn and deadly earnestness. This cannot be said of the countless orthodox student escapades that marked the whole period, most of them silly, but quite devoid of malice. It was in the interests of the college paper that we collected a fee at the door of the chapel one memorable night and then slid down a rope and decamped, leaving an expectant audience to fry in its own indignation. The sort of cameraderie [sic] existing between students and faculty was shown by the fact that Chancellor Manatt received a hint not to be president while Professor L. A. Sherman, the ambassador in the business, came early enjoy the anger of the audience, and Professor Nicholson, also in the secret, did his laughing outside as the members of the troupe swarmed down the
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