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SMITH COLLEGE STORIES
SMITH COLLEGE STORIES
TEN STORIES BY
JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MCM
Copyright, 1900, by Charles Scribner's Sons
D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston
To my Mother, who sent me to college,
I offer these impressions of it.
J. D. D.
PREFACE
If these simple tales serve to deepen in theslightest degree the rapidly growing convictionthat the college girl is very much likeany other girl—that this likeness is, indeed,one of her most striking characteristics—theauthor will consider their existence abundantlyjustified.
J. D. D.
CONTENTS
| I | |
| The Emotions of a Sub-guard | 1 |
| II | |
| A Case of Interference | 37 |
| III | |
| Miss Biddle of Bryn Mawr | 67 |
| IV | |
| Biscuits ex Machina | 85 |
| V | |
| The Education of Elizabeth | 123 |
| VI | |
| A Family Affair | 151 |
| VII | |
| A Few Diversions | 205 |
| VIII | |
| The Evolution of Evangeline | 247 |
| IX | |
| At Commencement | 279 |
| X | |
| The End of It | 321 |
THE FIRST STORY
THE EMOTIONS OF A SUB-GUARD
I
THE EMOTIONS OF A SUB-GUARD
Theodora pushed through theyellow and purple crowd, a sea offlags and ribbons and great paperflowers, caught a glimpse of the redand green river that flowed steadily in at theother door, and felt her heart contract. Whata lot of girls! And the freshme