The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1902, Page 5

What David Starr | Jordzn Thinks education Marriage. (1 VO on: Does not | ad tom o rriage? riage and fortu- iages 1 those found interests ana | Itis | ate function 2 to prepare | men, for ssful lives.— Letter. friendships. el i s ad RO - the last decade since the university came into existence. Nor has their lovemaking been forbidden fruit. Dr. Jordan's ap- proval has gone forth *“Co-educalion m lezad to marriage, and fo ely so.” So the young people kept on spooning. e bly would have kept on any- y, whether it had been forbidden fruit However, it made it easy to know that it was smiled upon indulgently. keep a psychologist busy to ! the whys and wherefores of wonial spirit that has pervaded much more than other eo- educatic utions. Of course the studen > go there are at a romantic age: but this holds good of other colleges just the same. Men and women students are taught in the same classes; but Stan- ford is not ique in this, either. For one thing, it is located in a romantic spot. A man is certainly more likely to fall in love with a girl when he sees her hair fluttering in a March breeze while she gathers a hat full of popples than he would be if he came upon her picking her way over a sloppy pavement or clutching her hat in a wind that ruined her com- plexion. Girls are very picturesquely en- vironed at Stanford. They can be found foregrounds with hills and wild middle distance, and they are often framed in arches. These girl- scapes have proved too much for many a ey pr ther thing that counts is Stanford’s isolation. Stanford young people are thrown upon each other for society, and acquaintance ripens. The faculty looks on and approves. Dr. Jorflan was a Cornell man and he married TIRIA M AACLAREN MLARBLE. THOR S FHoT o 2 Cornell woman. Therefore he has not only preached but likewise practiced. He says that co-educational matches are all right and nobody disputes him. A number of the professors have done the thing themselves. There was Pro- fessor Walter Miller who met his wife first at Ann Arbor. Smith who married Frances Rand, a co- ed; there were loads more of them. No wonder Stanford young people have looked upon matrimony as one of their courses of study. lllustrious examples lay all around them. During the first few years of the uni- versity's career, these affairs were in an embryo condition. It is only of late that they have materialized. A good many of the young people became engaged dur- ing their college careers, but did not marry until later, when the breadwinner had begun f win. Of late, marriages have been reported thick and fast, and the Stangord wedding with its cardinal decorations has come to be a fad of the season Probably there never was a love affalr within the quadrangle that kept interest alive as steadily as that of Alice Cowen and Guy Cochran. He was one of Stan- ford’s darlings; he was a football hero and a glee club man, and the gods had given him more than his share. Either of these distinctions alone ought to have been enough for one mortal. Add to them both the fact that he bore off Alice Cowen and his good fortune was nothing less than insolent. Alice appeared on the scene when the '97 class entered. She was one of the prettiest of them and was immediately spotted as such by the critical eyes that There was Professor . are always open to “size up” freshmen. She comes of a distinguished Irish fam- ily and is Irish in her beauty; her hair is as black as her eyes are blue and her cheeks are rosy. And the witty tongue of her race is hers as well. She came to Stanford from a girls’ sem- inary where she had graduated in order to get away. She did not take kindly to seminary restrictions. She enjoyed the fuh of college life. Bhe had scarcely appeared ‘on the quad before it was all up with Guy Cochran, and thereupon they entered upon their affair which lasted all through the three years that they were at college together. Then he went to Columbia, and it was not long before they were married and set- tled down in New York, where it is re- ported that they are keeping house in an adorable flat. They are coming back to California before long, where Dr. Coch- ran, as he now is, will practice. Virginia Hearne was the famous beauty of Stanford and she kept gossip guessing all the time she was there. At one time 'THE SUNDAY CALL. the public was quite conwinced that a cer- tain football player was the lucky man, then the guessing shifted, and most of the guessers were lost entirely. In the end it turned out that Wilber McNeil, a “Fiji,"’ was the fortunate fellow. ‘When Miss Hearne swept-down the cor- vidor, hearts used to dron in hier path. She A ‘5’)//“*’”“ 2 3 W LLLTANS was a willowy blonde with eyes as big as pansies, and che knew that black—flow- ing black, with a plumed picture hat— made a dream of her. She and “Billy’” McNeil were married the same season as Grace Clark and Roys Strohn. The men were frat brothers. Everybody expeoted Grace Cark to be & “Fiji” bride, but there used to be some doubt as to which “FijL." Bhe was one of the three Clark heiresses. Being an heiress is enough to distinguish a girl at Stanford. She used to give house parties in her San Jose home and invite Stanford people down, She had a good time with her money. She was the kind of a girl who dared do what the whim prompted. Old-time Stanfordifes remember seeing her climb to the high seat of the rumbling, rickety old Palo Alto bus one day, seize lines and whip and drive those horses as they had never been driven before. She was a good horsewoman, and she made the old bump- ing bus rattle down the road at the pace of a smart tallyho. Hallle Hyde and Will Irwin were mar- ried a year ago as the result of a Stan- ford courtship and they are living up on Russian Hill now, the hill which has been the center of San Francisco's clever set for many a year. The Irwins are of them. Mrs. Irwin is an artist. an amateur actress and a housekeeper all in one pretty woman, Which is a good deal for high education to have accomplished. Lottie Steffens, remembered by her col- lege mates as Dot, was married to J. J. Hollister after a Stanford love affalr. Everybody who was there in early years remembers seeing them strolling together —the very blonde girl and\the very dark man. “Jim” Hollister i{s a member of the Santa Barbara family. He is a daring ftellow. -He went to Nome In the first years of the gold fever and went through all sorts of dangers there. Then he came back to Dot as his reward. Marylyn Main and Chester Thomas have been married recently. They had a cardinal wedding at Miss Main's Santa Barbara home, with decorations that fblazed as they do at a football game. They used to be a stunning couple in the quad. They are perfect types of the Gibson man and woman—they have splen- did physiques, clear-cut, aristocratic fea- tures, and are smart dressers. They al- ways looked like brother and sister, al- though there was nothing brother-and- sisterly in their devotion. Kitty Haskell one of Marylyn Main’s particular chums, and’ she, to married now. Herbert Straight, a Sigma Nu, was the man who bore her off. May Durham and J. C. Kirtland were 80 absorbed in their engagement while they were students that they were never well known by many of the other young people. They devoted themselves to each other and to their studies. They were was brainy people both of them, and they left Stanford thev went away to teach together. Marguerite Blake, that very pink- cheeked and pretty young lady of the '97 ss, surprised a gre many of her ome three years ago by sending out cards which announced her marriage to Ray Wilbur, the tall president of the ‘96 class. He has been forging ahead of late, having a fine place now on the Stan- ford faculty, where he teaches physiology Miss Elsa Ames married R. F. Gil after a college courtship that lasted eral years. Miss Ames’ queenly blonde beauty was said to have havoc with the heart of a certain pr sor, who flunked her out of his class when she refused him for the sake of Mr. Gilliam. Miriam Maclaren and John Marble mar- rled and went to Los Angeles, whe young husband went into business in father's bank. Miss Maclaren of the San Jose girls who were noted at Stanford for their prettiness. In early days the Garden City turned out more was one Lox TIE STEFFENS HOLLISTER pretty co-eds than any other town in the State. The Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority did wonders in the matrimonial line. The married Thetas are scattered everywhere now. May Hume, who married W. W. Potter, 1s llving in San Francisco in an artistic flat up at the top of the Jones- street hill. Winifred Caldwell learned more about mat a giet did befc 2 renounce logarithms ‘and eq 11l to become Mrs. Clark W h and Carl Thomas we their freshmar they wlen the: Mrs. How: had not : profe all this Ruby was she entered, w put an end to nman whan and her clever wheeling. S e left, all he and indite In th and that I her bicycle. Beil, a Phi Delta Thet though it has wrote girl of the married Ha sity, down to domest 1s the w i Hoover, we t he nis w edge to good advantage during the terrible ported ‘lost more and finally emerged with all sc dit. heroism to their Jo- e been living mber of years now. They have been in South Africa during the Boer war. Elizabe ty wh She th Chapm: and Robert Donald now have home in Sacramento and there are two little Donalds in the home. Evelyn Crow, one of the San Jose girls married Sam ons and has gone abroad with him now while he studles medicine. Mary Holt, the witty Southern daughter of an old Southern family, is married to Walter Rose, the young lawyer, and has a home here in San Fran There never was a girl at Stanford w at repartee than she, and her wit always kept plenty of admirers in her train fore Walter Rose won out. Mary Burke and Scott Calhoun were a couple whom all Stanford watched during the pioneer years. After graduating Mol- lle taught for a w they were married. If marrying a professor is properly termed a co-educational match, th Frances Rand and Anna Kohler belong in the list. Miss Rand was a Pl Beta Phi girl, who married Professor Smith. Anna Kohler is now on a prolonged honeymoon in Europve with her husband, Professor Earl Barnes. co, ho was quicker be- t hen Two sad stories are those of Lily Burch and Alberta Merri Alberta was one of the Kappa girls, a favorite of them, and never did two people’ love each other better than she and Carl Clemens, the great football hero of early days. After a long engagement they were married and went north; they had hardly come Lo realize how happy they were in their little home when she died. Lily Burch followed her husband, Louls Allen, to New York, to Los Angeles, and finally out on the desert to Indio through his long suffering as a consumptive. Nothing was of any avail. He left her a widow with a splendid little son. She went back to Stanford after her husband died, saying that all her happy days had been spent there and she could never leave it. But the sad stories are very, very few, and the happy ones are very, very many. Does co-education lead to marriage? “Certainly it may,” replies Dr. Jordan, “and fortunately so.” And judging from the Stanford matches, Dr. Jordan is entirely right. —_———— The newspapers of Brooklyn say that the free lecture system has proved a great ELIZSBETE CHAPMATT pomMoLP WEBSTER PHOTS success. During the course, which lasted thirteen weeks, 112,444 people attended.