Improper proposals.pdf

extracted text: more or less conspicuous way. Even the annals of the col lege or the university and its archives with their refe rences to the records of the students and the benefactions of the alumni run back to the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, as the lawyers say. So I think it is the most natural and the most human thing in the world for our alumnus to act as he does. And as he comes back to warm himself in the sun of the campus and opens his coffers and bestows of his substance to the various drives for Annual Giving and for the Capital Needs of his alma mater, and for the es tablishment of professorships and scholarships and what not else, we may rest assured that he is well repaid not only in the happiness he en joys with his classmates and with the alumni of other classes, but also by the satis faction one always feels in responding to an inner urge and a subconscious motiva tion. — Judge Harold R. Me dina of U.S.A., from Ameri can Alumni Council, Leaflet No. 12. IMPROPER PROPOSALS One beautiful evening, a young man who was very shy was carried away by the magic of the night. “Darling,” he asked, “will you marry me?” “Yes, Bill,” she answered softly. Then he lapsed into a silence that at last became painful to her. "Bill,” she said with a note of doubt in her voice, why don’t you say something?” “I think,” replied Bill, “that I’ve said too much already.” — Alan Swerth. September 1967 15
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