Smith College Stories Part 27

"Let's make a ring, girls, and sing once 'round, and say good-by till next year," she said; and then there was a little quick shuffling, and the carefully divided sets got together and stood as they had stood for the last two or three years. Theo took tight hold of Virginia and Adelaide, and they moved slowly around the tables, a great circle of girls, so quiet for a moment that Ninety-green, singing one another home around the campus, sounded as loud and clear as their own voices a moment ago. They listened with a common impulse as the rollicking _Tommy Atkins_ song paused awhile under the Washburn windows; they had been very fond of Ninety-green.

Ninety-_green_ she is a _winner_, Ninety-_green_ she is a _star_, Is there _any_thing _agin_ her?

No, we _do_ not think there _are_!

There have _been_ some other _cla.s.ses_, Other _seniors_ have been _seen_, But they _cannot_ match the _la.s.ses_ That are _wearing_ of the _green_!

They smiled a little and remembered the great ma.s.s of green flags and ribbons that had waved to that song in last year's Rally. But they did not answer with one of their own; a little of the first faint conviction that the college owns all her cla.s.ses, the feeling that grows with the years, came to them, and as the circle pressed closer and closer and their steps fell into an even tramp, Grace called out, "Now, girls, here's to old Smith College!" and they sent it out over the campus, so strong and loud that the decennial people and the groups of Ninety-green and the juniors and the belated soph.o.m.ores lurking about heard them and joined in:

Oh, _here's_ to old Smith _College_, drink her _down_!

Oh, _here's_ to old Smith _College_, drink her _down_!

Oh, _here's_ to old Smith _College_, For it's _where_ we get our _knowledge_, Drink her _down_, drink her _down_, drink her _down_, down, _down_!

COLLEGE STORIES PUBLISHED BY MESSRS. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK

_Smith_

SMITH COLLEGE STORIES BY JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM 12_mo_, $1.50

An animated picture of a particularly active-minded and picturesque community is contained in Miss Daskam's volume. "Smith" may be taken as an epitome of the woman's college world; and these ten stories have a real value accordingly in showing what the undergraduate life of many thousands of American young women really is in its varied phases, ill.u.s.trating their ambitions, manners, occupations, and traits.

The stories, however, show that a good deal of human nature exists within college walls, and they will certainly appeal as strongly to the fiction-lover as to the sociologist, being written with great cleverness and sparkle, and clearly the work of a born writer of stories.

t.i.tLES OF THE STORIES

_The Emotions of a Sub-Guard_ _A Case of Interference_ _Miss Biddle of Bryn Mawr_ _Biscuits ex Machina_ _The Education of Elizabeth_ _A Family Affair_ _A Few Diversions_ _The Evolution of Evangeline_ _At Commencement_ _The End of It_

_Princeton_

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Here is the evanescent charm, the touch of poetry and sentiment, that pervades a thousand unpoetic and rather reserved young men. You will find here the good fellowship depicted without any rant about it.

There isn't a prig in these stories, ... that are well written and well constructed, judged from the standard of good American short-story writers.--_Droch in Life_.

They breathe a spirit of commendable vigor and manliness. Princeton men are fortunate in having the life of their college so favorably presented to the outside world.--_Atlantic Monthly_.

THE ADVENTURES OF A FRESHMAN BY JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS _Ill.u.s.trated_, 12_mo_, $1.25

The new story of college life by the author of "Princeton Stories" is a stirring tale of experiences at college, and has already been p.r.o.nounced (by the New York _Evening Sun_) "a better picture of college life than the same author's 'Princeton Stories'" (which is now in its ninth thousand). The _Independent_ says: "Hazing, the ups and downs of athletics, manliness and boyishness happily blended, escapades and adventures--all tending to the building up of a typical American character, brim the book with genuine life."

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