PROFESSER CROOK'S RECORD RIVALLED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11692, 29 June 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

PROFESSER CROOK'S RECORD RIVALLED.

The world has lately heard with wonder that' Professor Aljah R. Crook, of Northwestern University, told his students that he had'never spoken a profane word, never smoked nor chewed tobacco, nor kissed a girl. Now the students of the University of Chicago, unwilling to be outdone in any particular by North-western University, picked out Professor Frederick Starr as a worthy rival of Professor Crook. Furthermore, students of the Chicago institution expect to win out in the contest of ascetics, on the point that Professor Starr nearly lost his life by refusing to kiss the dusky belle of one of the Mexican Indian tribe's with which he had been sojourning for some time in research work. . "Women are foes to progress," is a remark which Professor Stair's classes have often heard from his lips.' , _ "I do not drink, smoke, nor kiss women, ' said the professor, " because I believe that the man who does so injures his value as a scientist. Oni time, when I had been living with the Guatamaloupe Indians in the mountains of Northern Mexico for nearly four months, and had just managed to ingratiate myself into the hearts of the.chiefs of the tribes by means of bribes and presents, they gav6 a big fete in my honour. " As the crowning ceremony of the occasion I was supposed to drink to the health of the belle of the tribe and then to kiss her ad a mark of esteem and harmony between myself and the tribe. I agreed to taste the 'pulque,' or native whisky, but when it came to the other ceremony I baulked, and nearly lost my life in consequenceand she was E'Sfefetoo./'