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His greeting was characteristic of the westerner , -- as if we had known one another all our lives . He was a runner and did the one hundred yards dash in ten seconds flat and was the school 's champion . I talked athletics to beat the band and got him interested . He was unable to get the committee together until seven o'clock that evening , which meant that I would have to stay in the town over night , as the last train went to Boston around 6:30 o'clock . There was nothing else to do but stay , as you naturally know what bad business it would be to leave a committee about to decide . `` I saw a platinum photograph of myself sleeping in that third-class hotel . I kept on talking athletics , however , and the chairman was good enough to ask me to dine with him .