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teaching, nothing to make a freshman eager either to attend their
classes or to study the lessons they assigned. They did not make the
acquiring of knowledge a thrilling experience; they made it a duty--and
Hugh found that duty exceedingly irksome.

He attended neither the fraternity dance nor the Prom. He had looked
forward enthusiastically to the "house dance," but after he had, along
with the other men in his delegation, cleaned the house from garret to
basement, he suddenly took to his bed with grippe. He groaned with
despair when Carl gave him glowing accounts of the dance and the
"janes." Carl for once, however, was circumspect; he did not tell Hugh
all that happened. He would have been hard put to explain his own
reticence, but although he thought "the jane who got pie-eyed" had been
enormously funny, he decided not to tell Hugh about her or the pie-eyed
brothers.

No freshman was allowed to attend the Prom, but along with the other men
who weren't "dragging women" Hugh walked the streets and watched the
girls. There was a tea-dance at the fraternity house during Prom week.
Hugh said that he got a great kick out of it, but, as a matter of fact,
he remained only a short time; there was a hectic quality to both the
girls and the talk that confused him. For some reason he didn't like the
atmosphere; and he didn't know why. His excuse to the brothers and to
himself for leaving early was that he was in training and not supposed
to dance.

Track above all things was absorbing his interest. He could hardly think
of anything else. He lay awake nights dreaming of the race he would run
against Raleigh. Sanford had three dual track meets a year, but the
first two were with small colleges and considered of little importance.
Only a point winner in the Raleigh meet was granted his letter.

Hugh won the hundred in the sophomore-freshman meet and in a meet with
the Raleigh freshmen, so that he was given his class numerals. He did
nothing, however, in the Raleigh meet; he was much too nervous to run
well, breaking three times at the mark. He was set back two yards and
was never able to regain them. For a time he was bitterly despondent,
but he soon cheered up when he thought of the three years ahead of him.

Spring brought first rain and slush and then the "sings." There was a
fine stretch of lawn in the center of the campus, and on clear nights
the students gathered there for a sing, one class on each side of the
lawn