take home to be decided. The
majority of the girls at Wayne Hall had asked for their old rooms for
the next year. Two sophomores had succeeded in getting into Wellington
House. One poor little freshman, having studied too hard, had brought on
a nervous affection and was obliged to give up her course at Overton for
a year at least. There was also one other sophomore whose mother was
coming to the town of Overton to live and keep house for her daughter in
a bungalow not far from the college.

It now lacked only two days until the end of the spring term, and what
to pack and when to pack it were the burning questions of the hour.

"There will be room for four more freshmen here next year," remarked
Grace, as she appeared from her closet, her arms piled high with skirts
and gowns. Depositing them on the floor, she dropped wearily into a
chair. "I don't believe I can ever make all those things go into that
trunk. I have all my clothes that I brought here last fall, and another
lot that I brought back at Christmas, and still some others that I
acquired at Easter. If I had had a particle of forethought I would have
taken home a few things each trip. Don't dare to leave the house until
this trunk is packed, Anne, for I shall need you to help me sit on it.
If our combined weight isn't enough, we'll invite Elfreda and Miriam in
to the sitting. I am perfectly willing to perform the same kind offices
for them. Oh, dear, I hate to begin. I'm wild to go home, but I can't
help feeling sad to think my freshman joys are over. It seems to me that
the two most important years in college are one's freshman and senior
years.

"Being a freshman is like beginning a garden. One plants what one
considers the best seeds, and when the little green shoots come up, it's
terribly hard to make them live at all. It is only by constant care that
they are made to thrive and all sorts of storms are likely to rise out
of a clear sky and blight them. Some of the seeds one thought would
surely grow the fastest are total disappointments, while others that one
just planted to fill in, fairly astonish one by their growth, but if at
the end of the freshman year the garden looks green and well cared for,
it's safe to say it will keep on growing through the sophomore and
junior years and bloom at the end of four years. That's the peculiarity
about college gardens. One has to begin to plant the very first day of
the freshman year to be sure of flowers when the