Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 23 | A Yankee at Large

A. A YANKEE AT LARGE BY DEWITT MACKENZIE S I DO July 14 Tho AP-Tho ancient ancient an- an university town of Oxford lies been seething with excitement over ui th na act some devil dare students who wound up what I. I qs-c- qs vc- vc chal as a. a sung b by inkIng the marble statue of the poet Shelley One student was sent gent down for lila his In Inthis this arid and others were we're pUnIshed punIshed pun pun- snore more or l less s Seriously Well how times do change file f lie lads of a generation ago might hive have recorded upon a statue tIT details of some might deed But the til mere of marble would pIece Inking ot of a not hot have been considered a v vory ry thrilling to a a. night out of tile the I 1 call upon tie the president United Unit States t to back use me up In my claim that more strenuous tactics were employed by bythe 1 the young men when lie he and I were In our student days das S I The president can vouch tJ a the truth of this JC if he will aue 1 recently dIscovered ered that he 1 th the Into the the- lad wile spirited a donkey re of it Black River upper and distant my In the not so dint dIm past lt It has taken me more than a of a century to Identify the unknown hero at whose shrIne r I worshipped CS as a student In that fine old In Ludlow Ludl on the Black river Even noW I should not have ha succeeded In m my quest had not one ot of his friends poached on hIm bins It Is a far reach from the fog fog- enshrouded London of today to the sun kissed emerald hills hUls ot of the Vermont of our boYhood lout hut neither war nor revolution re with both of which I Iam am familiar has broUght me n a greater thrill than I got here in En England land whets when J I f finally learned wio per performed r ed that deed Incidentally Mr Ir Coolidge was in iii dIrectly responsible for my Ion don from the classic halls balls of l-f l i. i R ii A A.- A. my downfall having be been n brought by a somewhat sn- sn n- n successful emulation of one whose name was unknown b but t whose achievement was cherished as fur tur- the most glorious rage age Iii hi hith th the history of t our our academy But I do not hold that against the prel pred dent for fat while I failed to scale scalo the b heights l to which he had bad ascended with and perhaps because ot or Isis his donkey yet et I had tried and I Was proud ant proud still proud proud-In m my do- do feat It couldn't have been so 50 ver very long lon after Mr 11 Coolidge Coolidge's time In Black Blak academy that I entered there but even en then his feat had bC been emblazoned In letters of at gold old among the school traditions t As I have said nobody knew the author of the donkey classic but he be must have ha-e caught the fragrance of the incense which was burned at tie tle altar of the unknown