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him, and say, "Talking of English, Marquette is one university that doesn't believe in letting English down just to push football up." Reluctantly, before finishing with tact and questioning, I insert a caution to grandparents, uncles and aunts, elderly teachers, and, in some respects, parents, too, not to invade young people's privacy with questions they would not think of asking their equals. Being an elder relative, real or adopted, does not entitle one unceremoniously to ask one's nieces and nephews their age, grades, and "inhibitions." A girl of fifteen may not care to tell that she is fifteen, not eighteen; that she had C's in school, not A's; that her dress was handed down from her sister. She may not even like to proclaim some of her virtues such as, that she has never been kissed, doesn't smoke, has never tasted a Martini, or has so far done the jitterbug only with her girl friends. There are similar touchy or dubious points in a boy's life. |
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