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They had said there were to be only a few friends, and I naturally hoped that they would be mutual friends; but no, as my hostess turned around and said, "I suppose you know most of them here," I was obliged to confess that I did not know a face. They were not even the kind of people one sees at parties. Every girl looked as if she studied too hard, and had come there as a part of her other work...
THOSE people who carry around the subscription-paper often complain that signers are not to be found in such numbers as the justness of their cause seems to demand. Perhaps the number of the papers has something to do with these complaints, but one great cause of unwillingness to give liberally is to be found in the fact that the givers have only the faintest idea where all the money goes to. The Hokey Pokey Club need money to purchase new uniforms, or to play the Yale Club. A subscription-paper is passed around, the club appear in their uniforms...
...hackmen revel in happiness, the benevolent shop-keeper presents a countenance wreathed with smiles, the ancient washerwomen stand around in public places, and, uplifting their skinny hands, call down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...
...mile flag had opened half a length of clear water between her opponent's boat and her own. Harvard kept away very wide from the corner at the mouth of the Agawam, and for a short distance Yale seemed to be the inside crew; but presently Harvard swung around and again took the inside. Yale was now at 35 and Harvard at 32, and when the three-mile flag was reached that same half-length of clear water was still between the two boats. Now in the last mile Yale commenced a desperate struggle for the lead. They spurted again...
Then I put down the Latin, and took up another book, and waited. Then I put that down and looked at her music, and touched the piano! How slowly the time went! How still the house was! I sat down again and waited; I walked around and waited. I could bear it no longer, but took my hat and left the house...