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Updated: June 8, 2025
But Miss Raymond had been up betimes, working over her new batch of papers, and she met Eleanor's apologies with amused approval of sophomores, who, contrary to the popular tradition about their cock- sureness, were inclined to underestimate their abilities, and imagine, like freshmen before midyears, that their work was below grade.
"And after Christmas, midyears," wailed a freshman from her corner. "And after midyears what? "'To be or not to be, that is the question," quoted Katherine Kittredge loudly. "But for sophomores who survive the midyears," went on Mary, "the next thing of importance is the society elections." "That's so," said Betty eagerly.
"Do you know, girls," said Katherine, after they had compared programs for midyears, and each decided sadly that her particular arrangement of examinations was a great deal more onerous than the schedules of her friends, "Do you know, I was just beginning to like Eleanor Watson, but I wash my hands of her now." "Why? What's she done lately?" inquired Rachel.
It was an invitation from the newly-elected president of the Dramatic Club Beatrice Egerton had gone out of office at midyears to lecture before an open meeting of the society a week from the following Saturday. "Goodness!" said Betty, returning the telegram. "I didn't know you were a lecturer too, Mr. Blake." "Oh, I'm not much of one," returned Mr. Blake, easily.
"Maybe you think it's nonsense," returned Hinpoha in an offended tone, "but they do come true, lots of times. Do you remember, Gladys, the time I told you you were going to get a letter from a distance, and you got one from France the very next day?" "Yes," replied Gladys, "and do you remember the time you predicted I was going to flunk math at midyears and I took the prize?"
Katherine was reading the freshman history, hitting off the reception, with its bewildering gaiety and its terrifying grind-book, those first horrible midyears, made even more frightful by Mary Brooks's rumor, the basket-ball game when that was mentioned they made T. Reed stand on her chair to be cheered, and then they cheered the rest of the team, who, as Katherine said, "had marched so gallantly to a glorious defeat."
"And that some one will be doomed to feel foolish," added Miriam. Midyears, a season of terror to freshmen, a still alarming period to sophomores, but no very great bugbear to the two upper classes, came and went.
"You mean that she has been caught stealing before?" asked Eleanor. "Oh, no, but she couldn't make up the French that she flunked at midyears, and she must be behind in other subjects, too. I heard rumors about her having been dropped, and last week I saw the proof of our commencement program. Her name isn't on the diploma list." "Oh, I believe I'm almost glad of that," said Betty softly.
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