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Hand And Was, Walking Down The Gymnasium After Beckoning To The Boy To
Follow Him. The Boy Shoved His Feet Into His Goloshes, Pulled On His
Baa-Baa Coat, And, His Face White And Strained, Marched Down The Aisle.
The Proctor Heart Of Midlothian, 134
" Kenilworth, 135
" The Monastery, 136
" Old Mortality, 137
" Peveril Of The Peak, 138
" The Pirate, 139
" Quentin Durward, 140
" Redgauntlet, 141
" Rob Roy, 142
" St. Ronan'S Well, 143
" The Talisman, 144
" Lives Of The Novelists, 331
" Poems And Plays, 550, 551
Seebohm'S Oxford Reformers, 665
Chapter 8 Part 58
Seeley'S Ecce Homo, 305
Sewell'S (Anna) Black Beauty, 748
Shakespeare'S Comedies, 153
" Histories, Etc., 154
" Tragedies, 155
Shelley'S Poetical Works, 257, 258
Shelley'S (Mrs.) Frankenstein, 616
Sheppard'S Charles Auchester, 505
Sheridan'S Plays, 95
Sismondi'S Italian Republics, 250
Smeaton'S Life Of Shakespeare, 514
Smith'S A Dictionary Of Dates, 554
Smith'S Wealth Of Nations, 412, 413
Smith'S (George) Life Of Wm. Carey, 395
Smith'S (Sir Wm.) Smaller Classical Dictionary, 495
Smollett'S Roderick Random, 790
Sophocles, Young'S, 114
Southey'S Life Of Nelson, 52
Speke'S Source Of The Nile, 50
Spence'S Dictionary Of Non-Classical Mythology, 632
Spencer'S (Herbert) Essays On Education, 504
Spenser'S Faerie Queene, 443, 444
Spinoza'S Ethics, Etc., 481
Spyri'S Heidi, 431
Stanley'S Memorials Of Canterbury, 89
" Eastern Church, 251
Steele'S The Spectator, 164-167
Sterne'S Tristram Shandy, 617
" Sentimental Journey And Journal To Eliza, 796
Stevenson'S Treasure Island And Kidnapped, 763
" Master Of Ballantrae And The Black Arrow, 764
" Virginibus Puerisque And Familiar Studies Of Men And Books, 765
Chapter 8 Pg 59" An Inland Voyage, Travels With A Donkey, And Silverado Squatters, 766
" Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men, Etc., 767
" Poems, 768
" In The South Seas And Island Nights' Entertainments, 769
St. Francis, The Little Flowers Of, Etc., 485
Stopford Brooke'S Theology In The English Poets, 493
Stow'S Survey Of London, 589
Stowe'S Uncle Tom'S Cabin, 371
Strickland'S Queen Elizabeth, 100
Swedenborg'S Heaven And Hell, 379
" Divine Love And Wisdom, 635
" Divine Providence, 658
Swift'S Gulliver'S Travels, 60
" Journal To Stella, 757
" Tale Of A Tub, Etc., 347
Tacitus' Annals, 273
" Agricola And Germania, 274
Taylor'S Words And Places, 517
Tennyson'S Poems, 44, 626
Thackeray'S Esmond, 73
" Vanity Fair, 298
" Christmas Books, 359
" Pendennis, 425, 426
" Newcomes, 465, 466
" The Virginians, 507, 508
" English Humorists, And The Four Georges, 610
" Roundabout Papers, 687
Thierry'S Norman Conquest, 198, 199
Thoreau'S Walden, 281
Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, 455
Tolstoy'S Master And Man, And Other Parables And Tales, 469
" War And Peace, 525-527
" Childhood, Boyhood And Youth, 591
" Anna Karenina, 612, 613
Trench'S On The Study Of Words And English Past And Present, 788
Trollope'S Barchester Towers, 30
" Framley Parsonage, 181
Chapter 8 Pg 60" Golden Lion Of Granpere, 761
" The Warden, 182
" Dr. Thorne, 360
" Small House At Allington, 361
" Last Chronicles Of Barset, 391, 392
Trotter'S The Bayard Of India, 396
" Hodson, Of Hodson'S Horse, 401
" Warren Hastings, 452
Turgeniev'S Virgin Soil, 528
" Liza, 677
" Fathers And Sons, 742
Tyndall'S Glaciers Of The Alps, 98
Tytler'S Principles Of Translation, 168
Vasari'S Lives Of The Painters, 784-7
Verne'S (Jules) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, 319
" Dropped From The Clouds, 367
" Abandoned, 368
" The Secret Of The Island, 369
" Five Weeks In a Balloon And Around The World In eighty Days, 779
Virgil'S Aeneid, 161
" Eclogues And Georgics, 222
Voltaire'S Life Of Charles Xii., 270
" Age Of Louis Xiv., 780
Wace And Layamon'S Arthurian Chronicles, 578
Walpole'S Letters, 775
Walton'S Compleat Angler, 70
Waterton'S Wanderings In South America, 772
Wesley'S Journal, 105-108
White'S Selborne, 48
Whitman'S Leaves Of Grass (I.) And Democratic Vistas, Etc., 573
Whyte-Melville'S Gladiators, 523
Wood'S (Mrs. Henry) The Channings, 84
Woolman'S Journal, EtcS Selborne, 48
Chapter 8 Pg 61
Whitman'S Leaves Of Grass (I.) And Democratic Vistas, Etc., 573
Whyte-Melvillecy On Him; It Would Mean Everything To
The "Old Lady."
For The First Three Nights Of The Rushing Season The Fraternities Held
Open House For All Freshmen, But During The Last Three Nights No
Freshman Was Supposed To Enter A Fraternity House Unless Invited.
The First Three Nights Found The Freshmen Traveling In Scared Groups
From Fraternity House To Fraternity House, Sticking Close Together
Unless Rather Vigorously Pried Apart By Their Hosts. Everybody Was
Introduced To Everybody Else; Everybody Tried Rather Hopelessly To Make
Conversation, And Nearly Everybody Smoked Too Much, Partly Because They
Were Nervous And Partly Because The "Smokes" Were Free.
It Was The Last Three Nights That Counted. Both Hugh And Carl Received
Invitations From Most Of The Fraternities, And They Stuck Together,
Religiously Visiting Them All. Hugh Hoped That They Would "Make" The
Same Fraternity And That That Fraternity Would Be Nu Delta. They Were
Together So Consistently During The Rushing Period That The Story Went
Around The Campus That Carver And Peters Were "Going The Same Way," And
That Carver Had Said That He Wouldn'T Accept A Bid From Any Fraternity
Unless It Asked Peters, Too.
Hugh Heard The Story And Couldn'T Understand It. Everybody Seemed To
Take It For Granted That He Would Be Bid. Why Didn'T They Take It
Equally For Granted That Carl Would Be Bid As Well? He Thought Perhaps
It Was Because He Was An Athlete And Carl Wasn'T; But The Truth Was, Of
Course, That The Upper-Classmen Perceived The _Nouveau Riche_ Quality In
Carl Quite As Clearly As He Did Himself. He Knew That His Money And The
Fact That He Had Gone To A Fashionable Prep School Would Bring Him Bids,
But Would They Be From The Right Fraternities? That Was The
All-Important Question.
Those Last Three Days Of Rushing Were Nerve-Racking. At Night The
Invited Freshmen--And That Meant About Two Thirds Of The Class--Were At
The Fraternity Houses Until Eleven; Between Classes And During Every
Free Hour They Were Accosted By Earnest Fraternity Men, Each Presenting
The Superior Merits Of His Fraternity. The Fraternity Men Were Wearier
Than The Freshmen. They Sat Up Until The Small Hours Every Morning
Discussing The Freshmen They Had Entertained The Night Before.
Hugh Was In a Daze. Over And Over He Heard The Same Words With Only
Slight Variations. A Fraternity Man Would Slap A Fat Book With An
Excited Hand And Exclaim: "This Is 'Baird'S Manual,' The Final Authority
On Fraternities, And It'S Got Absolutely All The Dope. You Can See Where
We Stand. Sixty Chapters! You Don'T Join Just This One, Y' Understand;
You Join All Of 'Em. You'Re Welcome Wherever You Go." Or, If The Number
Of Chapters Happened To Be Small, "Baird'S Manual" Was Referred To
Again. "Only Fifteen Chapters, You See. We Don'T Take In New Chapters
Every Time They Ask. We'Re Darned Careful To Know What We'Re Signing Up
Before We Take Anybody In." The Word "Aristocratic" Was Carefully
Avoided, But It Was Just As Carefully Suggested.
It Seemed To Hugh That He Was Shown A Photograph Of Every Fraternity
House In The Country. "Look," He Would Be Told By His Host, "Look At
That Picture To The Right Of The Fireplace. That'S Our House At Cornell.
Chapter 8 Pg 62Isn'T It The Darb? And Look At That One. It'S Our House At California.
Some Palace. They'Ve Got Sunken Gardens. I Was Out There Last Year To
Our Convention. The Boys Certainly Gave Us A Swell Time."
All This Through A Haze Of Tobacco Smoke And Over The Noise Of A Jazz
Orchestra And The Chatter Of A Dozen Similar Conversations. Hugh Was
Excited But Not Really Interested. The Nu Deltas Invited Him To Their
House Every Evening, But They Were Not Making A Great Fuss Over Him.
Perhaps They Weren'T Going To Give Him A Bid.... Well, He'D Go Some
Other Fraternity. No, He Wouldn'T, Either. Maybe The Nu Delta'S Would
Bid Him Later After He'D Done Something On The Track.
Although Actual Pledging Was Not Supposed To Be Done Until Saturday
Night, Hugh Was Receiving What Amounted To Bids All That Day And The
Night Before. Several Times Groups Of Fraternity Men Got Into A Room,
Closed The Door, And Then Talked To Him Until He Was Almost Literally
Dizzy. He Was Wise Enough Not To Make Any Promises. His Invariable
Answer Was: "I Don'T Know Yet. I Won'T Know Until Saturday Night."
Carl Was Having Similar Experiences, But Neither Of Them Had Been Talked
To By Nu Deltas. The President Of The Chapter, Merle Douglas, Had Said
To Hugh In Passing, "We'Ve Got Our Eye On You, Carver," And That Was All
That Had Been Said. Carl Did Not Have Even That Much Consolation. But He
Wasn'T So Much Interested In Nu Delta As Hugh Was; Kappa Zeta Or Alpha
Sigma Would Do As Well. Both Of These Fraternities Were Making Violent
Efforts To Get Hugh, But They Were Paying Only Polite Attention To Carl.
On Friday Night Hugh Was Given Some Advice That He Had Good Reason To
Remember In Later Years. At The Moment It Did Not Interest Him A Great
Deal.
He Had Gone To The Delta Sigma Delta House, Not Because He Had The
Slightest Interest In That Fraternity But Because The Nu Deltas Had Not
Urged Him To Remain With Them. The Delta
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