The Plastic Age

p to talk for two quite useless minutes with the freshman dean; they lined up to be assigned seats in the commons. Carl suggested that he and Hugh line up in the study before going to be

weary and utterly confused, asked Carl i

t's a young ladies' sch

fully noble lectures, I'm going to get drunk. I have a hunch that colleg

e damn things to kill you off?" He pulled a flask

that you wouldn't drink it on a bet. Besides, you know that I don

the biddy'll get hold of it, and then God help us. I'll tell you what: after it ge

; I've got a date with my faculty advis

id have to wait an hour and a half. Finally a student came out o

lashed across Hugh's mind as

ers. He glanced up as Hugh came in and motioned him to a

see. Your n

sir. Hugh

es. "Oh, yes, from Merrytown High School, fully

don't

e Latin for a B. S. and at least two

heard the high-school principal say that Greek was useless nowadays. Suddenly he remember

ell." Professor Kane, who hadn't yet looked at Hugh, picke

sir-Me

xplained the symbols that he was using, but he did not say anything about the courses. When he had comple

rning his blond, blank face t

sk. "No, sir," he replied. "Very well, then. I am your regular

door, the gruff voice bawled, "Next!" The boy

ss they mean something," he mused, "but how am I going to find out?" A su

you back."... "Put her there, ol' scout; it's sure good to see you." Everywhere the same greetings: "Didya have a good summer? Glad to see you back." Every one called every one else by his first name; every

g close to Carl and one or two other lads in Surrey with whom he picked up an acquaintance, and Carl clung close to Hugh, careful t

doomed. Work was their lot, and plenty of it. "Hi, freshman, carry up my trunk. Yeah, you, freshman-you with the skinny legs. You and your fat friend carry my trunk up to the fourth floor-and if you drop it, I'll break your fool necks."... "Freshm

and ordered him around; he loved the very trunks that he lugged so painfully up-stairs. He was being recognized, merely as a janitor, it is true, but recognized; at last he was a part of Sanford College. Further, one of the me

and rested their aching bones, one on a

t?" said Hugh, stret

ll! How do the

'll do the orde

't I make the little frosh walk." He gazed around the room, his face

lanket-Hugh's greatest contribution-Carl's Kane blanket, the photographs of the "harem," poste

ugh proudly. "All we need is a

the week is out." Thi