inches. Jenks, O.H.-S., won the quarter in 52-3/5 secs. by ten or twelve
yards, with two university men, Barnes and Parkhurst, behind him. Cheek,
the captain of the O.H.-S. team, got second in the broad jump, covering
21 feet, and cleared 10 feet 2-1/2 inches in the pole vault. McConnell,
O.H.-S., cleared 5 feet 3 inches in the high jump, and took second in
the event. The Pacific Coast scholars may well be proud of these
achievements in a competition with men so much older and more
experienced than themselves.

THE GRADUATE.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of Girls and Young
Women, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on
the subject so far as possible. Correspondents should address
Editor.

Ailsie Bond came to see me on last Saturday afternoon, and I noticed at
a glance that something was wrong. I knew it by her very step and her
look. Ailsie is one of my darlings, such a bright, brave girl, always
just where one expects to find her, the sweetest, dearest, sunniest of
companions. But she was under a cloud last week. Let me add that she is
sixteen years old, and a school-girl.

"I am so homesick," she said, sitting in her favorite corner of the
lounge, with her elbow resting on a cushion. "Here I've kept up for
months working hard and learning ever so much, and feeling every day
that father and mother are so good in sparing me to stay away so long,
and in giving me these advantages, and now, when the last school term of
the year is almost ended, examinations coming on, and then so soon home,
sweet home and a long vacation, I can't _stand_ it. I want my mother. I
want to sleep in my own little room. I want to hug the baby. I want to
count the silver, and dust the parlor, and keep the library in order,
and run to meet my father when he comes home from the office. Oh, I know
it is silly!" she said, laughing and crying both at once, "but I can't
help it. I'm homesick, and I'd rather have the toothache. It wouldn't
hurt any more."

There was no use in arguing with dear Ailsie, so I comforted her as best
I could. You girls who are away at school know all about it. The
homesick hours must come, and you wouldn't be really home-loving girls
if you didn't have them. But if one never went away from home, she
couldn't have the joy of going back there, and being met at the station
by her big brother, and having father and mother wel