here
was so much to be done in the way of arranging one's recitations, buying
or renting one's books and accustoming one's self to the routine of
college life that Grace and her friends could scarcely spare the time to
write their home letters. There were twenty-four girls at Wayne Hall.
With the exception of four sophomores the house was given up to
freshmen. Grace thought them all delightful, and in her whole-souled,
generous fashion made capital of their virtues and remained blind to
their shortcomings. There had been a number of jolly gatherings in Mrs.
Elwood's living room, at which quantities of fudge and penuchi were made
and eaten and mere acquaintances became fast friends.

The week following their arrival a dance had been given in the gymnasium
in honor of the freshmen. The whole college had turned out at this
strictly informal affair, and the upper class girls had taken particular
pains to see that the freshmen were provided with partners and had a
good time generally. At this dance the three Oakdale friends had felt
more at home than at any other time since entering Overton. In the first
place, Mabel Ashe, Frances Marlton and Constance King had come over to
Wayne Hall in a body on the evening before the dance and offered
themselves as escorts. Furthermore, the scores of happy, laughing girls
gliding over the gymnasium floor to the music of a three-piece orchestra
reminded Grace of the school dances in her own home town. J. Elfreda had
also been escorted to the hop by Virginia Gaines, one of the sophomores
at Wayne Hall, who had a great respect for the stout girl's money, and
it was a secret relief to Grace that she had not been left out.

Now the dance was a thing of the past, and nothing was in sight in the
way of entertainment except the reception and dance given by the
sophomores to the freshmen. This was a yearly event, and meant more to
the freshmen than almost any other class celebration, for the
sophomores, having thrown off freshman shackles, took a lively hand in
the affairs of the members of the entering class. It was sophomores who
under pretense of sympathetic interest wormed out of unsuspecting
freshmen their inmost secrets and gleefully spread them abroad among the
upper classes. It was also the sophomores who were the most active in
enforcing the standard that erring freshmen were supposed to live up to.
The junior and senior classes as a rule allowed their sophomore sisters
to regulate the c