Winning His "W": A Story of Freshman Year at College

E-text prepared by Elaine Walker, David Garcia, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

In this book I have endeavored to relate the story of a boy's early experiences in college life—a boy who was neither unnaturally good nor preternaturally bad, wholesome, earnest, impulsive, making just such mistakes as a normal boy would make, and yet earnest, sincere, and healthy. We all have known just such boys and are grateful that they are neither uncommon nor unknown.
Perhaps it may add a little to the interest of this tale if it is stated that many of the events described in it actually occurred. I have not tagged a moral upon it, for if the story itself shall not bear its own moral, then the addition will not add to it.
Everett T. Tomlinson.
Elizabeth, New Jersey.


I've got a letter from Peter John.
What's the trouble with him? He ought to have been here yesterday or the day before.
I'm afraid Peter John never'll be on time. He doesn't seem to have taken that in his course. He'd never pass an 'exam' in punctuality.
What does he want?