If he had only been an old boy he would have thrown down the gauntlet then and there; but he was a freshman and must check the tugging within.
Illustration: Leila claimed the privilege of conveying the freshman to Silverton Hall, her destination.
It won't be at all like the regular freshman dance.
Seven democrats in a class of one hundred ten, with the politics of the other hundred and two doubtful, did not point to a speedy election of Phyllis to the freshman presidency.
We had such a lonesome time on our freshmanappearance at Hamilton, you know.
She said she would have been terribly lonely during her freshman year if she had not had her car.
The other three officers were more to their liking, but the Sans' electioneering had left a rift in the freshman lute which promised plenty of discord later on.
Meanwhile the faithful little committee, truly devoted to freshman welfare, was blissfully unaware that their duties were about to be snatched from them by the predatory Sans.
The disastrous ending of the freshman picnic had dampened her ardor for electioneering for a few days.
This last had been Leila's pet name for Marjorie since the latter had won the title at a beauty contest given the previous year at the freshman frolic.
While the babyish-looking freshman regarded Leslie with a perfectly innocent expression, there was lurking malice in her wide blue eyes.
In case the freshman yield was small, they were to use their judgment about being friendly with returning students of the upper classes.
A credulous young freshman was told by her roommates that Miss Lyman, if asked, would give out at morning prayers any hymn a student wished sung on her birthday, that it was her custom to do so.
Miss Lyman came along one morning, joining a youngfreshman waiting for her class, and taking the girl's arm, paced with her slowly up and down a few times to the student's embarrassed pleasure.
Jack and some friends he makes crowd innumerable happenings into an exciting freshman year at one of the leading Eastern colleges.
The pupils who as sophomores, juniors and seniors had come to know the tricky French girl during her freshman year for precisely what she was, had been graduated and gone on to other fields.
The parting of the ways so near, the sextette of girls who had emerged from their freshman year, a devoted band, clung fondly to one another.
As a freshman at Hamilton I'll be a very insignificant person.
They feel grateful to him for showing them throughfreshman science--that's all.
They mean Professor Duck of their freshman year," explained Fairy complacently.
Every new form of pseudo-therapy found him in itsfreshman class.
If he was illogical and credulous and a respecter of authority as a freshman he remains much the same as a graduate.
And Bingo answered with a sigh, "I suppose a fellow has to go to bed even after a Freshman fire.
Bradfield was not only the pitcher, but the Captain of the Freshman nine.
The Freshman fire, his first fire, must be a success, and he knew where a good fence was.
Tell 'em Princeton's the biggest college in the world, Tom, and that '98 can beat any Freshman nine in the country!
Finally, their previous work in their studies was found to be satisfactory, and, as Frank Watson informed his chums, the three chums were to enter the freshman class.
During his freshman year he made 32 points, maintaining consistently a grade of B, except in two subjects.
The freshman class wagged its head knowingly and said: "I told you they couldn't get on without March," and held its head higher for that one of its members was a Varsity player.
I was here two years ago with the freshman team," he was saying.
Every little freshman thinks he can buy a pair of moleskins and be a football man.
Freshman March will favor us with a song," announced the mask.
It is not a frequent thing to find a freshman on the Varsity team, even as substitute, and Joel's fame grew apace and many congratulations were extended to him, in classroom and out.
Quite true, but all the same how would the freshman have fared had not his scout looked after him, seen that he did what it behoved him to do, and kept him not seldom from some faux pas?
A freshman passes the Entrance Examination just well enough to get rooms in College--the last set vacant.
The fishermen of squatter's row did not recognize the stranger who slouched along by the side of Tessibel, the night of the freshman banquet.
Shorts, now thoroughly sober, followed the big freshman into the drawing-room, where a dozen or more downcast-looking boys were curled up on divans.
The sophomores never quite puzzled out how the freshman president was in his chair at the banquet, and directly in front of him in the place of honor was a huge dish of eels.
The regret of the little freshman the next morning when the dismal news of the missing president came to him was intensely genuine.
Frederick Graves had been made president of the freshman class, a short time after entering the "Cranium" fraternity.
Threatening looks were showered upon them as freshman after freshman, guarded by juniors, filed in.
It had also been the custom to try to capture the president of the freshman class and hold him in seclusion until after the banquet, thereby making his opening speech impossible.
Miss Jones and Miss Smith laughed shrilly, and the despised little Freshman completed her mortification, by a feeble joke about Kitty Heath's new man-trap.
We want to win this race for the Freshman class, and we're depending on you.
But I tell you that you're in luck to make the Freshman team.
The loss of the Freshman Latin class would mean a serious blow to the finances of the institution of learning.
Left to himself, Tom sat down and looked about the room that was to be his for the Freshman year.
Only remember, every Freshman must wear his cap backwards every time he comes on the campus, for the next two weeks, and salute every Sophomore he meets, under penalty of being hazed over again.
I came down to tell Dick and Will that I just got word that I'm to enter the Freshman class, when I saw you had my boat.
The jump had accomplished the very purpose for which the pluckyFreshman intended it.
Turning in their hired boat, Tom and Jack went to the college crew's headquarters, and there Tom, on making cautious inquiries, learned to his regret that there would be no Freshman crew organized that fall.
Morse Denton, theFreshman captain, and Jack Fitch, who was as fleet as some ends, was after the fleeing youth.
For there was a conference between theFreshman captain and coach that night, which resulted in Sam being sent back to the scrub.
And thus the hazing of Tom's Freshmanclass passed into history.
There was a subdued air of expectancy at the Freshman supper that night, and many whispers ran around.
Early that evening there was secret meeting of the Freshman Latin class, and a solemn agreement was entered into that, if they had to strike, they would all stick together.
George boasted, in his freshman year, that if the faculty would let him alone he could easily get through the four years without flunking a single thing in athletics.
But the amiable George, at the age of one and twenty and while still a freshman in college, picked a girl without consulting his parent and in a jiffy put an end to the theory that man's right is divine.
Suddenly I was that lonesome, homesick freshman by the waters of Lake Waban, with Jane's awkward young arm around me, and I stood aside to let Henrietta come into her heritage of Jane.
The occasional West Pointer who returned home at the end of his second year with squared shoulders and chin drawn in had become far more dissociated from his surroundings than the freshman of a civil college.
We returned at the end of our freshman year with the attitude of "How little they know!
Hence, if a Freshman should say to me, I wish to be a historian, tell me what preliminary studies you would advise, I should welcome the opportunity.
At times he appeared surprised and disturbed by the bursts of laughter; and a small freshman in the front row toppled out of his seat and had to be thumped on the back.
Sometimes they took walks together, for both were fond of being outdoors, and it became a common thing to see the tall, awkward junior striding alongside the freshman and leaning down near-sightedly to catch his words.
Ever since his freshman year he had been among the foremost in all college affairs.
The littlefreshman Clover was his immediate neighbor, and beyond that youth sat Showell, the fellow whom Jack had fooled with his pitching on that first day of outdoor practise.
The air grew close, and it was with a thrill of actually joyous expectation that Betty hurried to the gym as the time approached, and joked with the freshman captain whom she met on the way.
Betty had scarcely seen all summer these boys with whom she had become acquainted at the freshman parties and other meetings of her first year at Lyon High.
The "rough" freshman was taken out after some too apparent fouls due to her performances, and the final score was eighteen to three in favor of the sophomores.
Memories of the bob-sleds at the Dorrance home during their freshman year came back to more than Betty Lee of the "old crowd.
Many of them they had known all through their freshman year.
We're a good deal of a mob yet, but not like the freshman bunch.
But as "little freshmen" their assumptions made small impression on their associates of the freshman class.
The freshman team hasn't had enough practice," said Carolyn in the gym before the games.
That was after the "tip-off," as a freshman girl told Mrs. Lee.
It was not so hard as the freshman year's work, yet there were more distractions as she increasingly took part in the school's activities.
There wasn't any one started that she wanted to join when she was a freshman or sophomore and then she got into so much responsibility in the G.
This was toward the close of Betty Lee's odd, but interesting summer, after her freshman year in Lyon High.
We're going to 'lick' the sophomores," jovially the freshman captain informed her.
She gathered her girls together and told them of some points she had noted about the freshman playing and they entered the game with confidence, though warned not to be too sure.
Alan again hovered on the edge of the Varsity Eleven, but a freshman who bowled rather better the same sort of ball came up, and it seemed improbable he would get his Blue.
Michael found it amusing to catch the name of some freshman and, shouting abruptly a salute, to behold him wriggle and blush and drink his answer and wonder who on earth was hailing him.
Although he and the dull young freshman had both used this creaking wicker-chair, for their successors neither of them could preserve the indication of their precedence.
Lonsdale, turning to the freshman who had sat in the armchair at the head of the second table.
