CHAPTER XVII
RECOGNITION WEEK
ALTHOUGH the young people had but a small part in the proceedings of Recognition week, they took a vivid interest in all the festivities in which Mr. Emerson and Mrs. Morton took part, and they never failed to notice the rose-bedecked men and women whose numbers increased every day.
"Everybody who has ever read the Chautauqua Course seems to be wearing some sort of C. L. S. C. badge," said Ethel Blue at the table on Saturday evening.
"Only those who have graduated," explained Mrs. Emerson, "wear garnet badges like mine. The 1914's are wearing their class flower, the English rose, and the new class just forming has an olive green bow."
"Wouldn't it be fun if all the 1914 class members from all over the world could be here to graduate!"
"What a flock there would be!"
"How many will be here?"
"About a hundred and fifty or two hundred. That's a small fraction of the class but they come from so many different places that they are fairly representative of the whole class."
"The rooms were crowded at the reception yesterday afternoon and this afternoon and every trolley is bringing more."