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Dick Forrest proved hiy at the university, save that he cut more lectures the first year than any other student The reason for this was that he did not need the lectures he cut, and he knew it His coaches, while preparing hih the first college year Incidentally, he made the Freshh school and acadeainst

But Dick did put in work that nobody saw His collateral reading ide and deep, and when he went on his first suasoline yacht he had built no gay young crowd accouests, with their families, were professors of literature, history, jurisprudence, and philosophy It was long reh-brow" cruise The professors, on their return, reported a reater coeneral fields of the particular professors than he could have gained in years at their class-lectures And tiained, enabled him to continue to cut lectures and to devote ood college tiirls loved hi He never cut a smoker, a beer bust, or a rush, and he toured the Pacific Coast with the Banjo and Mandolin Club

And yet he was no prodigy He was brilliant at nothing Half a dozen of his fellows could out-banjo and out-ed better dancers than he In football, and he gained the Varsity in his Sophomore year, he was considered a solid and dependable player, and that was all It seeth of the field while the Blue and Gold host tore itself and the grandstand to pieces But it was at the end of heart-breaking, grueling slog in mud and rain, the score tied, the second half imminent to its close, Stanford on the five-yard line, Berkeley's ball, with tns and three yards to gain--it was then that the Blue and Gold arose and chanted its demand for Forrest to hit the center and hit it hard

He never achieved super-excellence at anything Big Charley Everson drank him down at the beer busts Harrison Jackson, at ha, always exceeded his best by twenty feet Carruthers out- pointed hie could always put his shoulders to the mat, two out of three, but always only by the hardest work In English composition a fifth of his class excelled him Edlin, the Russian Jew, out-debated him on the contention that property was robbery Schultz and Debret left hiher mathematics; and Otsuki, the Japanese, was beyond all comparison with him in chemistry