Polly's first year at boarding school

The sun was just peeping over the red-tiled roof of the gym, as Polly and Lois stole softly out of the house and walked slowly in the direction of the woods. The day was warm an...

She leaned dejectedly against a big tree on the edge of the pond and watched the girls skate round and round in dizzy circles. A white boy's sweater enveloped her slender body a...

"Last year, the old girls will remember, that we had a book party, and it was great fun," she said, "but this year, I have thought of something entirely new. I want you all to d...

Polly had just washed her hair, and she was sitting on her shirt waist box before the open window drying it. It was a gloriously warm, sunshiny day and the twitter of birds, the...

The above conversation took place in Freshman Alley about ten o'clock in the morning. Throughout the entire school the game was the one subject that was being discussed. The gir...

The first day of the Xmas holidays had at last arrived and fifty-six tired girls were busily packing trunks and bags. Nerves that had been overstrained for the past couple of we...

Lois bounded up the stairs, two steps at a time, waving a yellow telegram in the air and shrieking: "Polly!" at the top of her lungs. Not finding her friend in the corridor, she...

It was the morning of the musical and the day before Commencement. Lessons were over for the year, and all the girls were in a high state of holiday excitement.

Betty was sitting on top of the grand piano on the platform in the Assembly Hall, kicking her feet and sucking a very large lemon by means of a stick of candy used as a straw.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon and the end of the first school day. There had been no lessons to speak of. The new girls had been piloted to the various classrooms, introdu...

"If I have no fever, Miss King says she'll see. I hate people to say they will see; Aunt Hannah always did, and it always meant 'no,'" pouted Polly. "When does the other team ar...

Today was very important, for it was the date set for the old girls' welcome dance to the new girls. All week there had been whisperings and talk of it, but none of the new girl...

Lois had delivered this command a couple of days after the paper chase and Polly had therefore spent hours in the gym during the month which elapsed between then and the opening...

"I knew it, I knew it; my Latin won't be finished and the Spartan will be furious," she exclaimed to the four walls, "but I did intend to get up early. Well, it can't be helped...

"Certainly not," answered Betty excitedly. "I started to read just the first scene, but when I got to 'By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is a-weary of this great world,' at t...

"Do you think you passed?" asked Betty, joining Angela and Polly in the schoolroom corridor. It was the third day of examination week and the Freshmen had just finished the Lite...

The Freshmen class were so excited that they found it impossible to pay any attention in classes. The teachers, for the most part, understood and forgave, except the Spartan, wh...

"There will be a meeting of the big team and substitutes in classroom A at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Please be prompt," read Lois, standing in front of the bulletin board. She h...

Seddon Hall, situated on top of one of the many hills that lined either side of the Hudson River, was a scene of hubbub and confusion. It was the 27th of September and the openi...

The last bell had just sounded and the girls were leaving the schoolroom for the day. Two weeks had passed since the Valentine party. Today was Wednesday and the coming Saturday...

The long days in the infirmary dragged by and lengthened into weeks. One so closely resembled the other that Polly lost track of all time. Uncle Roddy sent boxes containing ever...