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Title: Winning His "W"
A Story of Freshman Year at College

Author: Everett Titsworth Tomlinson

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Language: English

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WINNING HIS "W"

A Story of Freshman Year at College

by

EVERETT T. TOMLINSON

M.A. Donohue & Company
Chicago New York

1904

PREFACE

In this book I have endeavored to relate the story of a boy's early
experiences in college life--a boy who was neither unnaturally good nor
preternaturally bad, wholesome, earnest, impulsive, making just such
mistakes as a normal boy would make, and yet earnest, sincere, and
healthy. We all have known just such boys and are grateful that they are
neither uncommon nor unknown.

Perhaps it may add a little to the interest of this tale if it is stated
that many of the events described in it actually occurred. I have not
tagged a "moral" upon it, for if the story itself shall not bear its own
moral, then the addition will not add to it.

EVERETT T. TOMLINSON.

Elizabeth, New Jersey.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE OPENING TERM

II. PETER JOHN'S ARRIVAL

III. NEW FRIENDS AND NEW EXPERIENCES

IV. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES

V. UNSOUGHT ATTENTIONS

VI. A RACE IN THE DARKNESS

VII. SPLINTER'S QUESTIONS

VIII. THE PARADE

IX. THE WALK WITH MOTT

X. A VISITOR

XI. THE PERPETUAL PROBLEM

XII. THE MEET

XIII. WAGNER'S ADVICE

XIV. THE ADVICE FOLLOWED

XV. A REVERSED DECISION

XVI. TELEGRAMS

XVII. PETER JOHN'S DOWNFALL

XVIII. AN ALARMING REPORT

XIX. A RARE INTERVIEW

XX. A CRISIS

XXI. THE EXAMINATION

XXII. A FRESH EXCITEMENT

XXIII. THE RUSH TO COVENTRY CENTER

XXIV. THE MYSTERY OF THE CANES

XXV. ON THE TRAIL

XXVI. ST. PATRICK'S DAY

XXVII. CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I

THE OPENING TERM

"I've got a letter from Peter John."