if she liked their
looks, have suggested to Tom or James that they come here to college
amid such lovely surroundings. She liked it better than Amherst but
Ethel Blue preferred that compact little village, and Dorothy clung to
her deep-seated affection for Cambridge.

"After all, our Club boys have their plans all made so we don't need to
get excited over these colleges," decided Ethel Brown; "and I'm glad
they're all going to different ones because when they graduate we'll
have invitations to three separate class-days and other festivities."

"What a perfectly beautiful tower," exclaimed Dorothy.

"It's the chapel. That light-colored stone is superb, isn't it!"

"Some of these other buildings look as old as some of the oldy-old
Harvard ones."

"They can't be anywhere near as old. This college wasn't founded until
1793."

"That's old enough to give it a settled-down air in spite of these
handsome new affairs. There must be lovely walks about here."

"Hills almost as big as mountains to climb. But the boys don't have
any girls to call on the way the Amherst boys do, with the Smith girls
and the Mt. Holyoke girls just a little ride away."

"Perhaps they'd rather have mountains," remarked Ethel Brown wisely.

As the college was not in session Mr. Emerson was not able to see any
of the records that he had hoped to look over to search for his
brother's name, and as almost all of the professors were out of town,
he could not question any of the older men of the place as to their
recollection of him. He was quite willing, therefore, to take a
comparatively early train for Albany.

They arrived early enough to go over the Capitol, seated at the head of
a broad but precipitous street. It was very unlike the stern
simplicity of the Massachusetts State House, but they amused themselves
by saying that at least the two buildings had one part of their
decoration in common. In Albany the tops of the columns were carved
with fruits and flowers, all to be found in the United States. In
Boston a local product, the codfish, held a position of honor over the
desk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

"All made in the U. S. A.," laughed Dorothy, quoting a slogan of the
wartime, intended to help home industries.

They wanted to see the Cathedral and St. Agnes' School as well as the
State Board of Education Building, and after they had hunted them out
with the help of a map of the city, and had taken a trolle