ust yesterday that Pris
and I were alone in that crowd of Freshmen at Redmond. And now we are
Seniors in our final examinations."

"'Potent, wise, and reverend Seniors,'" quoted Phil. "Do you suppose we
really are any wiser than when we came to Redmond?"

"You don't act as if you were by times," said Aunt Jamesina severely.

"Oh, Aunt Jimsie, haven't we been pretty good girls, take us by and
large, these three winters you've mothered us?" pleaded Phil.

"You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls that ever went
together through college," averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a
compliment by misplaced economy.

"But I mistrust you haven't any too much sense yet. It's not to be
expected, of course. Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a
college course. You've been to college four years and I never was, but I
know heaps more than you do, young ladies."

"'There are lots of things that never go by rule,
There's a powerful pile o' knowledge
That you never get at college,
There are heaps of things you never learn at school,'"

quoted Stella.

"Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry
and such trash?" queried Aunt Jamesina.

"Oh, yes. I think we have, Aunty," protested Anne.

"We've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last
Philomathic," said Phil. "He said, 'Humor is the spiciest condiment in
the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke
over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of
your difficulties but overcome them.' Isn't that worth learning, Aunt
Jimsie?"

"Yes, it is, dearie. When you've learned to laugh at the things that
should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've
got wisdom and understanding."

"What have you got out of your Redmond course, Anne?" murmured Priscilla
aside.

"I think," said Anne slowly, "that I really have learned to look upon
each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing
of victory. Summing up, I think that is what Redmond has given me."

"I shall have to fall back on another Professor Woodleigh quotation to
express what it has done for me," said Priscilla. "You remember that
he said in his address, 'There is so much in the world for us all if we
only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand
to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and
liter