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Updated: May 13, 2025
And I remember the night in our sophomore club when the news came like a thunderclap that one of our members had been killed pole-vaulting at a track meet in New York. It was our habit, in our new-found manliness, to eat with our hats on, shout and sing, and speak of our food as "tapeworm," "hemorrhage," and the like.
There were ever so many boys to meet him." "He's a Beta Rho, belongs to that fraternity, you know. They have a swell house here. I know most of them very well, been over there to dinner several times." "What class is he in?" "Mine, Sophomore. He's a splendid athlete, football and pole-vaulting, and he sings in the Glee Club.
It was many days before the outward evidence of the lesson he had learned had left him; while the impression upon his mind was one that was to remain with him for life. Never again did he uselessly tempt fate. He took long chances often in his after life; but only when the taking of chances might further the attainment of some cherished end and, always thereafter, he practiced pole-vaulting.
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