They all followed her example. Then, standing on the big rock with their arms around one another’s shoulders, they repeated earnestly their Vigilante principles:
“We stand for fair play and true friendship.”
“And for taking care of our roots,” added Virginia, as a postscript.
Then they scrambled down from the rock, and ran through the wood path to the campus, where the lower classes were gathering for the annual Senior song, which was held the last day of Commencement. From the woods north of the campus came the twenty Seniors in white dresses. They marched two by two between long lines of crimson ribbon, which they held. As they drew near the campus where the other classes awaited them, they sang their Senior song.
“We’re the St. Helen’s Seniors,
The crimson and the white,
We stand for fun and friendship,
For loyalty and right,
We’ll ever praise St. Helen’s,
Her wisdom and her fame,