Show IN IM GOLDEN AGE OF YOUTH college life a thing always to bo be regarded with the kenderest Tend Ten derest crest iv j of memories Me morle the phrase college life Is an America nitin and it has no equivalent in any other language but english it to those whose use with understanding and sympathy an experience peri Per lence ence out ot of aich grows n i deep sentiment made rp ot of pleasure friendship alp affection loyalty and pride it seems to them a tender influence a peculiar Ie cullar grace that reaches out across miles and years drawing them back to their alma mater and the comradeship of their classmates to most graduates their college life meems their golden age through the mist list ot of years the campus becomes be colnes an island of utopia whose very grow bright la in the retrospect the sins sina mid and failures was as 0 always ya lessened lese ened by the power of the ideals ind and hopes that filled its air no campus ever was a utopia anil and the most golden age of 0 memory demor has doubt less been much alloyed wit with baser metal but it if there is not something very blight and beautiful in III american college life it is hard to account for the feeling in thousands ot of grayhair gray hair rr er men that long ago in their youth besides the education they got they gained around the knees ot of at alma me mater hater lasting joy strength and inspiration that was not entirely contained in the books they read and cannot lie be exactly measured by the knowledge knoal they acquired paul van dyke a scribners magazine MaBa zinc |