TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
Tommy? A nice little chap? Only you haven't time this year for anything. Well, I hardly hoped that George's brother and my brother would hit it off together. Somehow the younger generation of friends seldom do. It's like the marriages that young mothers plan together over their babies' clothes; they never take place. But remember that just because you happen to be in with the important push is not necessarily a proof that you deserved it any more than Tompkins. You may consider yourself in your quiet, carefully unconceited way an awfully nice fellow, but how do you know that Tompkins, or that quiet poler in the seat next to yours in chapel, does not consider himself a still nicer fellow? Possibly you'll think so, too, eventually. Who knows? You may be asking Tompkins for a job some day, like Henry Haskell, the great baseball player. He was a very big man in college, so big that it took him years to get out.
After graduation he kept on coming back to coach the team, kept on being known
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