Jane Allen, Center

“To tell the truth, Janey, I have been petting it a bit. I have not been sick since I had the mumps, and it was adorable to have the girls holding my hands, and looking into my...

“You were never exact, Judy. And I couldn’t call that clump of wearables really scientific looking. In fact, I am worried about the expressmen coming in and grabbing up your tra...

The big dance was over. Wellington had entertained the Breslins royally, and not even the absence of “real men” effected a barrier between the romping college girls and the best...

“Can we make it, Daddy?” asked Jane. “Doesn’t that look like a little cyclone cloud?” indicating the cloud with a “tail” that seemed to be gathering color and speed as the buckb...

“But we must have her. And we have to get very busy before the freshmen have a chance to go over our heads. I have been lobbying ever since the four thirty, and I have seen all...

The letter which Jane had so counted on, had just now shed its delightful news, and at last she knew who had won the scholarship. Winding herself tighter still in the big wicker...

So it was when the Wellington girls installed themselves in Miss Jordan’s apartment, they had no idea of the novelty in store for them. The house was one of the old mansions now...

One reaction after another made up the program of Wellington, and directly after the big practice game, at which Judith turned her ankle, Jane was confronted again with Helen’s...

As night gathered around Wellington, and while the fast train cut through the hills, back to the little station where so many happy, and perhaps a few sad hearts had come and go...

The day of the final practice game—that which was to decide which team would have the honor to play the Breslins, found every member of all teams fairly quivering with anticipat...

Jolly round fleecy clouds tumbled over their playmates in the great, broad playfield of endless blue; baby cloudlets climbed to tops, only to slide down the other side, while ha...

“That’s just it. I am and have always been her friend. I know a thoroughbred when I see one, but these other folks,” and Dickey made a gesture of disgust. “They make me tired. I...

“Oh, you will take care of that, Janie dear,” interrupted Judith. “Even when I want to sleep a bit late o’ morning, and have been reading a little after hours the night before,...

The promised long waits, in the offices and parlors of musical talent had descended upon Mrs. Weatherbee and Jane. It having been impossible to make an appointment for his inter...

“Pray tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?” This came from the spreading oak, while from the group of young pines, in a remote corner of the campus the a...

With that efficiency so marked in large establishments (for El Capitan was large and really an establishment) the new arrangements of driving over the hills for Judith Stearns,...

Alone, Jane pondered seriously over the new aspect her problem had assumed. Never had so absurd a story gained more prompt impetus—the result, presumably, of well-laid plans, th...

“Mrs. Weatherbee would like to see you, Miss Allen.” This summons from Molly the hall girl, aroused Jane from a somewhat disconnected reverie—if deep thinking on a dark subject...

“But I am sort of perplexed,” Jane admitted to Judith. “It was lovely, of course, for the boys to serenade us, and I think Fedario quite a sport to give us the ukelele, but how...

Hazel Manners, the retiring president, looking very handsome and very charming, in her senior gown, with the cap’s tassel still to the left, however, made a happy and appropriat...

Jane was going to New York with Mrs. Weatherbee. For some reason not fully explained the director wished particularly to have Jane with her. The long waits and short intervals p...

“But we must attend to our practice, Judith, this very afternoon I have called for a full team. We are to meet the girls of Breslin, and no personal worries must be allowed to i...

“Oh, Marion Seaton is perfectly wild. Threatens to leave college if we are not all disciplined. She won’t even come to her classes. Judy, dear, do you think we—will catch it?”

“Madam, dinner is served,” announced Helen at the door, with the funny little jerked courtesy and her finger to her lips a la Molly in the movies. Helen was an apt American scho...

“If there is one thing I like more than all the other things about a long railway journey,” said Judith, as they alighted at the great Metropolis terminal, “it is the end. I lov...

“No, I just weighed up all the standards, and decided we had to have her for the good of this year’s work all round. And then I knew, if we could convince her of that, she would...

“Oh, it’s Jane! Come on!” called Judith, dragging in her wake such of the girls as she could collect from the study hall. “Come on and hear all the news.”

The amount of work to be prepared for next day seemed heavier and more difficult than usual and Jane Allen, humanly responsive, felt keenly the natural reaction of the wild week...

“What a wonderful sleep!” Jane was just stretching out in her bunk. “I suppose Judy is up and dressed, and interviewing the crew.” She pulled the little window curtain back caut...

Titters and gasps, muffled giggles and escaping “S-sish!” like a steam valve leaking noise, the sophs and their co-workers among the freshmen were crowding around Oak Hall for t...