Adventures and Lette 第2章 COLLEGE DAYS(8/16)

en,before and since,and nobody could have foreseen that the name and work of Dick Davis would long before his untimely death,indeed within a few years from leaving college,be better known throughout the world than those of any other Lehigh man.We who knew him in his college days could not feel the smallest surprise that he won himself quickly a brilliant name,and kept a firm hold upon it to the last.

"What was it that made him so early a marked man?I think it was the spirit of confidence and enthusiasm which turned every enterprise he undertook into an adventure,--the brave and humorous playing of the game of life,the true heart,the wholesome body and soul of my friend and classmate.He did not excel in studies or greatly,in athletics.But in his own field,that of writing,he was so much better than the rest of us that no one of his fellow-editors of the Epitome or Burr needed to be considered in comparison with him.No less,in spite of his voluntary nonmembership in the fraternities of his day,was he a leader in the social activities of the University.The `Arcadian Club'devoted in its beginnings to the `pipes,books,beer and gingeralia'of Davis's song about it and the `Mustard and Cheese'were his creations.In all his personal relationships he was the most amusing and stimulating of companions.With garb and ways of unique picturesqueness,rarer even in college communities a generation ago than at present,it was inevitable that he sometimes got himself laughed at as well as -->>

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