eyelids had crinkled: it was that very evening, when Annie, the cook,
had beckoned to her in the hall of the Nicest House, and said:
"There's three o' them little cakes on a plate on your table, Miss
The'dora. I shan't be bakin' 'em agin, an' I know you do be terrible
fond of 'em!"
"Thank you, Annie," she had said, and shaken her hand warmly. Annie
had cooked fifteen years in the Nicest House, and what she and her
mistress didn't know about girls you could put in a salt-spoon. It
wasn't every girl that Annie liked, either.
Grace was getting up, and they stood a moment irresolutely by the
chairs.
"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 _classes_,
Other _seniors_ have been _seen_,
But they _cannot_ match the _lasses_
That are _wearing_ of the _green_!
They smiled a little and remembered the great mass 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 classes, 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 sophomores
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,
illustrating 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.
TITLES 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_
PRINCETON STORIES
BY
JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS
_9th Thousand_
12_mo_, $1.00
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
_Illustrated_, 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
pronounced (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."
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS
153-157 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
End of Project Gutenberg's Smith College Stories, by Josephine Dodge Daskam