How could they bear to leave—when it was to be shut on the outside of the college gates always—except as they flitted back through the years in the doubtful and unenviable role of alumnæ?
With a full heart Peggy was glad she was just beginning, glad that she would shout for her class’s red lion emblem at basketball matches and polo ground for three years more, glad that she was to return and buy, in the pride of her sophomoreship, her little red canoe, glad that college was still brimming over with experiences for her, as yet untried and unguessed.
“Come quickly, Peggy,” cried Gloria Hazeltine, passing the Ambler girls on a run, “Glee club’s having a sing over by Seelye Hall. Hurry, or you’ll miss some of it.”
Glad of the opportunity to be with so great a number of girls once more before vacation, the Ambler freshmen began to run too, and soon the voices of the glee club carried to them.
Through the crowd that had gathered they caught glimpses of the singers’ white dresses.
“They’re singing ‘Where-oh-where,’” cried Katherine.
And as the words of the familiar song were wafted out to them, Peggy and Katherine smiled their queer pride and happiness into each other’s eyes, since for the first time the song applied to Them.
“Where, oh, where are those verdant freshmen?
Where, oh, where are those verdant freshmen?
Where, oh, Where are those verdant freshmen?
Sa-afe now in the Soph’more Class!”
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