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Show 70 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER Theater on Saturday nights, which was her favorite thing to do. Impressed with her father's occupation and perhaps in response to his urging, Madelyn really wanted to marry an attorney. Upon learning this, Harold enrolled in a pre-law course at the University of Utah, continued his work at the Ogden Iron Works, and dated Madelyn when he could. Of course, he was only one of several suitors. He sincerely prepared himself for law school and finished the preparatory course. At the indoctri nation program for beginning law students he listened carefully as the Dean announced they would have to live and breathe the law. Moreover, they must all understand the importance of precedent-decisions made in the past were binding in the pres ent and future. The law was based on looking to past decisions and evaluating the merits of cases in the light of previous deci sions. With an inventor's temperament Harold felt he could not be content to do that; he wanted to look ahead. In engineering, precedent was a starting point, not the final answer. He decid ed Madelyn would just have to marry an engineer. So he quit law school and university studies and went full-time into engi neering. He gave Madelyn a huge box of candied fruit for Christmas, a box that, whatever her impression of Harold, she saved. All this was very serious to Harold, but not to Madelyn. There are few references to him in her diary, and many refer ences to other young men to whom she was romantically and intellectually attracted. She graduated from the University of Utah in June 1923. Here is what she wrote in her diary: I am graduated from college. I am 22. And yet my thoughts and feelings and dreams are not unlike those young high school ones. I have had one mad, terrible, sublime year, in the cool, green valleys, dim and delightful with trees, with only occasional glimpses of the far, clear hilltops and of the sky. Now for some time I have been back on the hills and lookout points. I feel that I belong here. Yet there are times when my heart aches for the valleys and the rest places. But I know that |
