together, and I said, "Well, it's going to be a cold winter," and he came right back, "Yep."
Didn't waste a lot of time arguing and discussing! He knew!
And another time: I never could get along any too good in Latin. My talent, you might say, is more along practical lines. I asked Cal—we happened to be going into class together, and I asked him, "Say, what's the Latin for 'defy'?"
"Don't know," he said. No beating around the bush and pretending and four-flushing, but coming right out with it, bang! That's the kind of man he is, you take it from one who knows him!
Yes sir, I knew the boy and had the greatest affection and respect for him, like all of us who had the rare opportunity of understanding him!
And to think that I might not have gotten acquainted with him if we hadn't been chums together in one of the smaller colleges!
I tell you gentlemen, the way I figure it: the great, you might say the invincible advantage of the smaller educational institutions is that they
