The Yale Cup

Mr. Alsop closed the door of Number 7 behind him, more than ever convinced that he had caught an experienced and clever offender. Peck’s confusion when suddenly taxed with an ab...

On the Saturday after the Faculty Shield day, Sam ran in the forty-five-yard hurdles again, in the handicap meet which regularly follows the scratch contests. The handicapper th...

“Right behind the back-stop. Just think of seeing Owen bucking against McPherson and Hayes! O’Brien, who used to pitch for Hillbury, is going to be in the box for the Harvard Fr...

The inhabitants of the east well of Hale became lovers of peace. Mr. Alsop had not full confidence in the change, scenting something ominous in the unnatural calm. The rumor tha...

Two minutes later a youth in khaki, armed with a gun, stopped the up car just around the curve beyond the power-house, called out a startled passenger, and let the car go on. Th...

With the departure of Fish, the east well of Hale ceased to be a scene of mysteriously fomented disturbance. Mr. Alsop, having been wofully betrayed through blind following of h...

The middle of September was past. The school authorities had survived the worst of the confusion of registering, allotting rooms, smothering complaints, turning away unpromising...

For a few days after Duncan’s acquittal, Mr. Alsop seemed really to have profited by his lesson. It is no slight humiliation to make a theatrical charge of falsehood against two...

One result of the Shirley-Peck duel was to check the developing friendship of the inmates of 7 Hale. Duncan felt that Archer ought to have been on the watch when he passed Shirl...

The Christmas vacation brought Sam a chance to consider his school experiences away from the school atmosphere. He did this in part deliberately, in part by an unconscious proce...

With the passing of the Hillbury meet, Archer’s career as a school athlete was at an end. He played tennis and scrub ball, but this was play, not work. His training now was for...

Fish stood gazing with stupid astonishment at the closed door for some seconds after the sound of Birdie’s footsteps had died away. He was alone, with no check whatever upon his...

The game was played again under prescribed conditions, and the upper middlers won once more, this time in consequence of practice gained in playing together, by good use of the...

The day after Birdie Fowle reached home for the spring recess, a letter arrived from the Seaton authorities containing a printed blank, filled in with an alternation of D’s and...

The blow fell; Hillbury routed the Seaton eleven with ease. Sam had his mother and twelve-year-old sister down for the occasion. They came gay-trimmed and expectant, surveyed th...

There was no danger of lack of quorum at the election of the Laurel Leaf. Every faithful wheelhorse, every indifferent who had joined “to please the folks at home,” every interm...

The more Archer considered the matter, the more disgusted he became. It was totally unreasonable and absurd. Runyon had apparently set his heart on forcing a fight--why, Runyon...

“What good does fighting do? If you should wound me with a sword, it wouldn’t make the truth of what I said any less true, and if I should put a bullet into you, it wouldn’t dri...

It was well for our young men that they could share Owen’s victory, for Patterson, their school captain, gave them none of their own to enjoy. A pitcher cannot win a game alone;...

“I’m awfully sorry!” began Mulcahy, vehemently, as soon as the door had closed behind the departing form of Mr. Alsop. “I’m awfully sorry, but I couldn’t help it. There wasn’t a...

The hurrying weeks brought Sam once more face to face with his rival of Hillbury. Again one of thirty-odd numbers, he mingled with the confused throng of candidates near the sta...

It was clear, two events before the high hurdles came, that Hillbury was to win the day. In four races Seaton had been beaten by feet and inches in desperate finishes. It may ha...

The football weeks were coming to an end. With the loss of eight strong players who had graduated the year before, or for other sufficient reasons had left school, and the lack...

Despite his fears, Sam never heard from the faculty with reference to his duel. He had, on the whole, proved to his teachers his right to be considered a law-abiding citizen, if...

Archer came in from French next morning feeling depressed. Mr. Alsop had caught him on an unmastered point in the lesson, and had then made him the subject of pleasantries which...

The autumn weeks that slipped by had little effect on the relations of the two boys in 7 Hale. Duncan thought less ill of Archer after longer experience with him: he was not esp...

Regular exercise in the gymnasium began immediately after the Hillbury game. In Sam’s squad was a fellow from South Boston named Dennis Runyon. Runyon possessed a head ornamente...

“All packed?” inquired Robert Owen, inserting his head through the door of Number 7 Hale and sweeping the scene of confusion with a curious glance. Satisfied to accept the evide...