would also like a photograph of Miss Bentley as she appeared in the
character of Portia; and since she refused to give it to them, they
stated their intention of "faking" one, which, they gallantly assured
her, would be far homelier than the original.

The climax was reached when Bonnie Connaught was unfortunate enough to
sprain her ankle in basket-ball. Something more than a life-size
portrait of her, clothed in a masculine-looking sweater, with a
basket-ball under her arm, appeared in a New York evening paper, and
scare-heads three inches high announced in red ink that the champion
athlete and most popular society girl in college was at death's door,
owing to injuries received in basket-ball.

Bonnie's eminently respectable family descended upon the college in an
indignant body for the purpose of taking her home, and were with
difficulty soothed by an equally indignant faculty. The alumnae wrote
that in their day such brutal games as basket-ball had not been
countenanced, and that they feared the college had deteriorated. Parents
wrote that they would remove their daughters from college if they were
to be subjected to such publicity; and the poor president was, of
course, quite helpless before the glorious American privilege of free
speech.

Finally the college hit upon a partially protective measure--that of
furnishing its own news; and a regularly organized newspaper corps was
formed among the students, with a member of the faculty at the head. The
more respectable of the papers were very glad to have a correspondent
from the inside whose facts needed no investigation, and the less
respectable in due time betook themselves to more fruitful fields of
scandal and happily forgot the existence of the college.

Patty, having the reputation of being an "English shark," had been duly
empaneled and presented with a local paper. At first she had been filled
with a fit sense of the responsibility of the position, and had
conscientiously neglected her college work for its sake; but in time the
novelty wore off, and her weekly budgets became more and more
perfunctory in character.

The choice of Patty for this particular paper perhaps had not been very
far-sighted, for the editor wished a column a week of what he designated
as "chatty news," whereas it would have been wiser to have given her a
city paper which required only a brief statement of important facts.
Patty's own tendencies, it must be confessed, had a slightly y