e. Suppose about
twenty or thirty freshmen stepped off the five o'clock train. It would
keep Marjorie and me busy chasing up and down this old board walk
handing out welcomes."

"Now where do you suppose we would be during that time?" demanded Leila.

"Oh, you would be a help, undoubtedly," conceded Jerry, with a boyish
grin. "I forgot about you folks. I was merely thinking of us from our
committee standpoint. We'll have to guess whether these arrivals are
freshies or not. I don't know all the Hamilton students and where they
belong. It will be about my speed to walk up to some timid-looking
damsel and gallantly offer my assistance only to find out she is a proud
and lofty senior."

"There are few faces at Hamilton which I don't know," Leila assured.
"Behave well and stick to me and I'll promise you will not do anything
foolish. I can pick a freshie from afar off."

"Miss Remson told me yesterday that she understood there were one
hundred and ten freshmen applications this year," said Katherine. "We
are to have three freshies at Wayland Hall."

"One hundred and ten democrats would help our cause along," remarked
Lucy. "Only we need not expect any such miracle."

"With the start we now have, if even half of the freshmen were for
college equality, it would be a hard blow to the Sans. I wish it might
be like that." Vera clasped her bits of hands, an unconsciously pretty
fashion of hers when she earnestly desired something to come to pass.

"The Sans will fight for every inch of the ground this year. See if they
don't," Katherine Langly spoke with half bitter conviction. "Do you think
for an instant that they will sit still and see democracy win? Leslie
Cairns loves power. Joan Myers is determined to have her own way.
Natalie Weymain is vain. Dulcie Vale is vindictive. Evangeline Heppler
and Adelaide Forman are thoroughly disagreeable. Margaret Wayne is
malicious and scandalously untruthful. There! That is my candid opinion
of those seven students. I have always longed to express it."

"I see you have found your tongue. I congratulate you." Leila beamed
approval of such refreshing frankness on the part of quiet little
Katherine.

"We had better enter a conspiracy to spend our spare time rushing
freshies," proposed Helen. "When they are with us they will be out of
mischief."

"First catch your hare," advised Muriel. "Maybe the freshies would not
take kindly to the continuous round of pleasure we arranged for them