CHAPTER XV
PLANS FOR A COOPERATIVE COMMENCEMENT
It was Saturday afternoon and time for the “Merry Hearts’” meeting, which had been postponed for a day to let every one recover from Thursday evening’s excitement.
“Come along, Betty,” said Roberta Lewis, poking her head in at Betty’s half-open door. “We’re going to meet out on the back campus, by Nita’s hammock.”
“Could you wait just a second?” asked Betty absently, looking up from a much crossed and blotted sheet of paper. “If I can only think of a good way to end this sentence, I can inform Madeline Ayres that my ‘Novelists’’ paper is done. She said I couldn’t possibly finish it by five. See my new motto.”
“‘Do not let study interfere with your regular college career,’” read Roberta slowly. “What a lovely sentiment! Where did you get it?”
“Helen gave it to me for a commencement present,” said Betty, drawing a very black line through the words she had written last. “Isn’t it just like her?”
“Do you mean that it’s like her to give you something for commencement that you won’t have much use for afterward?”
“Yes,” laughed Betty, “and to give it to me because she says I made her see that it’s the sensible way of looking at college, although she thinks the person who got up these mottoes probably meant it for a joke. She wishes she could find out for sure about that. Isn’t she comical?”