o any good college, I
suppose."

"What's that?" asked Dunk, his mind quickly snapping to some of the not
very good habits he had fallen into.

"It's learning how to take the measure of a fellow," went on Andy, "I
mean his measure in the right way--not according to the standards we are
used to."

"Quite philosophical; aren't you?" laughed Dunk, as he picked up a book,
and leafed it.

"Well, that's another habit you get into here," said Andy, with a smile.
"But you know what I mean, don't you Dunk?"

"Well, I suppose you mean that you get tolerant of persons--fellows and
so on--that you have a natural dislike for otherwise; is that it?"

"Partly. You learn to appreciate a fellow for what he is really
worth--not because his dad can write a check in any number of figures,
and not turn a hair. It's _worth_ that counts at Yale, and not cash."

"You're right there, Andy. I think I've learned that, too. Take some of
the fellows here--we needn't mention any names--their popularity, such
as it is, depends on how much they can spend, or how many spreads they
can give in the course of the year. And the worst of it is, that their
popularity would go out like a candle in a tornado, once they lost their
money."

"Exactly," agreed Dunk. "They get so to depending on the power of their
cash they think its all that counts."

"And another bad thing about that," continued Andy, "is that those
fellows, if they wanted to, could make a reputation on something else
besides their cash. Now there's one chap here--no names, of course--but
he's a fine musician, and he could make the glee club, and the dramatic
association too, if he liked. But he's just to confounded lazy. He'd
rather draw a check, give an order for a spread, and let it go at that.

"Of course the fellows like to go to the blow-outs, and--come home with
a headache. This fellow thinks he gets a lot of fun out of it, but it's
dollars to some of these socks Ikey sells, that he'd have a heap more
fun, and make a lot more permanent friends, if he'd get out and take
part in something that was worth while.

"Now you take our friend Ikey. I don't imagine it's any great fun for
him to be going around selling things the way he does--he has to, I
understand it. And yet at that, he has a better time of it than maybe
you or I do--and we don't exactly have to worry where our next allowance
check is coming from."

"Right, Andy old man. Jove! You'd better have taken up the divinity