. Otherwise
they would never have gone to the trouble they have."

"They won't keep it up. Mark what I tell you, there will be a lot of
snubbed and very wrathful freshies before the month is out," prophesied
Leila.

"I hope the grand awakening comes before their class election. I doubt
it. With Miss Walbert as president of 19--, the Sans would feel they
had really put one over on us. I think Phyllis Moore, Robin's cousin,
would make a fine freshman president." Jerry glanced about her for
corroboration.

"Why not do some quiet electioneering for her, then," suggested Grace
Dearborn. "It is just as fair for us to boost a freshie for an office as
for the Sans. It would be only a helpful elder sister stunt. We need not
make ourselves prominent. A girl like Miss Moore would be a fine
influence to her class. This Miss Walbert would not be."

"It isn't really our business," demurred Marjorie, "but I think it would
be a good thing, nevertheless. We are fighting for democracy. The Sans
are fighting for popularity and false power. I am willing to do all I
can to help the cause along. I know Ronny and Muriel and Lucy will feel
the same. Jerry's here to speak for herself."

The others agreeing to enter into a quiet little plot to put the right
girl in the freshman presidential chair, how they should go about it
formed the main topic of conversation at Marie's dinner at the quaint
Colonial that evening. All sorts of ways and means were suggested, only
to be abandoned. It was impossible to proceed until they had come into
more of a knowledge of the freshmen themselves. Each, however, pledged
herself to make a point of getting acquainted with the freshmen in the
house where she resided and sounding them on their policies, with a view
toward giving them a hint in the right direction.

It seemed to Marjorie that the next few days following her strenuous
service on committee were days of undiluted peace. Busy with her study
programme she forgot, for the time being, that there ever were any such
persons as the Sans Soucians. She had decided on French, chemistry,
Greek tragedy, Horace's odes and spherical trigonometry for the fall
term, a programme that meant hard study. Since coming to Hamilton her
active interest in chemistry had increased and she planned to carry the
study of it through her entire college course. The laboratory at Sanford
High School had been well equipped, but the Hamilton laboratories were
all that scientific p