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After the scholarships had been disposed of, a representative of each of the three lower classes in turn, beginning with the freshmen, presented the gymnasium money to Miss Thompson. The freshmen had collected over three hundred dollars, the sophomores five hundred and the juniors six hundred and fifty dollars.
The town had been gleaned for inflammable material. The ash boxes of not even the oldest citizen were sacred on an occasion like this. For weeks the heap of wood had accumulated, until now there was a towering pile ready for the match. And still the cries echoed from the various quarters. "Freshmen, get wood!" "On the job, freshmen!" More wood was brought, and yet more. The pile grew.
I won't fight you, but I'll chastise you, and you can protect yourself if you know how." He made a bound forward, intent on hitting Darrin, who stood his ground unflinchingly. But Thompson seized the third classman by the shoulder and shoved him back. "Now, stop this, Ripley, and you freshmen, cut it out, too," warned the athletic first classman. "This is descending to a low level.
Their isolation at the moment, standing well out on the floor almost alone at the end of the "first half," gave them somewhat undue prominence, but it also gave everyone a splendid opportunity of seeing Ted and of admiring Sally's evening frock. When the number ended a group of freshmen cornered themselves in a window arch and promptly set about whispering some plans.
It is two years now since his last address. 'Of course I should like to go, said Robert with eagerness. 'Is it open? 'Strictly it is for his Greats pupils, but I can take you in. It is hardly meant for freshmen; but well, you are far enough on to make it interesting to you.
"We were invited because the sophomores found themselves lacking not in quality, but quantity. There weren't nearly enough sophomore 'gentlemen' to go round, so we juniors were pressed into service. "I'm so glad," returned Grace warmly. "We know nearly all the freshmen, but we know only a few sophomores. We were lamenting to-night because we expected to be wall flowers."
"Is that a crime?" demanded Ben, in a tone of wonder. "Why, we were planning," put in Belle, "that the freshmen boys and freshmen girls should dance together this evening." "I see a ray of hope," protested Ben. "I'm going to college, so I shall be a freshman again next year. Isn't that enough to entitle me to one -square -dance, anyway?"
It was all grain field then, part of the great Hopkins estate, where now the college town welcomes the annually incoming Freshmen, and offers them convenient lodging places of all grades of comfort and quick trams and motor busses to the university.
"Oh, hello, Blair!" he greeted, cordially! "I thought you were never coming! Put her there, old man! How are you?" He caught Andy's hand in a firm pressure with a mighty slap, and hauled him inside. "Fellows, here's my roommate!" went on Dunk. "Andy Blair. I hope you'll like him as well as I do. Blair, these are some luckless freshmen like ourselves.
No more inspiring or beautiful ceremony occurs in university life than the annual "cap-night" celebration when the student body meets in "Sleepy Hollow" near the Observatory, about a great bonfire, to watch the burning of the caps, and the formal initiation of the freshmen into the responsibilities of college life.
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