If Harvard football heroes and their
"rooters," for example, wish to let their hair grow long and wear
high turtle-necked red "sweaters," corduroy trousers and huge
"frat" pins, I, for one, can see no grave objection, for "boys
will be boys" and I am, I hope, no "old fogy" in such matters.
But I also see no reason why these same young fellows should not
be interested in the graces of the salon and the arts of the
drawing-room. Consider, for example, the following two letters,
illustrating the correct and incorrect method in which two young
college men should correspond, and tell me if there is not some
place in our college curriculum for a Professor of Deportment:
An Incorrect Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student
Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory
DEAR MIKE:
Here's your damn money. I was a fool to give you odds.
ED.
P. S. What happened at the Nass? I woke up Sunday with a terrific
welt on my forehead and somebody's hat with the initials L. G.
T., also a Brooks coat. Do you know whose they are? P. P. S.
Please for God's sake don't cash this check until the fifteenth
or I'm ruined.
And here is the way in which I would suggest that this same
letter be indited.
A Correct Letter from a Princeton Student to a Yale Student
Congratulating the Latter on His Football Victory
MY DEAR "FRIENDLY ENEMY":
Well, well, it was a jolly game, wasn't it, and it was so good to
see you in "Old Nassau.
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