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Page 242 - gude times " coming, they knew, but they would not be College ones. They would be dignified, sensible women of the outside world, in a little house in a little corner of that world somewhere ; and gone forever would be the dear old tribal life with its all things in common, from ideas to umbrellas, its intense happiness and its woes so overwhelmingly great that they were almost a kind of pleasure, its hail-fellow-well-met acquaintances, and its close, enduring friendships. " A woman may be an angel...
Page 35 - I can't stand my life here. I'm not like most of the girls, I don't care for parties, or athletics, or the class, or any of the things they get so excited about. I just want to study.
Page 176 - You and I had met before we came. Sally Dean was your school friend, Barbara Sterling's sister and yours were pals. Lois Duncan is Bab's cousin, Arna Kellar rooms with Bab. Margaret Uhler went to school with Lois, Emily and Nan room with Lois. Betty's sister is a Senior : when she was a Freshman, she was Margaret's sister's best friend. It's a regular House that Jack Built.
Page 188 - ... who had never owned a visiting card, never heard of a golf tea nor a Paris hat nor a theatre party, to whom most of Elizabeth's daily life at home was as foreign as that in Manila, who was yet gentle-mannered, refined, "a lady.
Page 222 - You pity your room-mate, decorously seated in the shade with her mother, while all the time she yearns to be in with the girls and shout and sing. You, who are clad in the Vassar uniform of golf skirt and shirt waist, regard with contempt those clothesome ones, who, "variously bedecked and bedevilled " in frilly, ribbony things, sit in the shade to the left.
Page 128 - When there's a Hall Play on, or a chapter one, or anything like this, the girls swoop down on you for every last stick you own. Other times we just borrow soap and hats and note-books and Gym. suits and money, and things like that.
Page 68 - Why don't they look at it as the usual thing, and the getting through as the surprise ? That's the way men feel. My brother flunks right and left, and he thinks it's grand.
Page 201 - She's bright, chock full of business, and popular with every one. And isn't she a stunner to look at ! She's done heaps for the class.
Page 183 - A clan, loyal to itself, sufficient to itself, yet admired by the " Uitlanders," the leader of all the good times, of all the " society,
Page 208 - Henceforth she would be numbered among the grinds, the shabby, over-worked, worried ones ; for there are degrees even in the state of grinds.