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The Cost of Collegiate Education
. He looked at her pleading upturned face for a moment, and all
thought of the partner waiting for him vanished. Sitting down
again he was silent for a moment.
Then he turned to her and said: "We have only patched up
a peace on the football question by evading it. Can't we fight it
out right here this evening. I want to ask you, do you still think
the game brutalizes the players?"
" Why, Mr. Armstrong, I'm afraid," she began, but she broke
down and turned to him with an appealing gesture. " How can
you ask me that ?"
" rorgive me, Elizabeth," he quickly added--she did not seem
to object to his using her first name, " I will ask you something
else. In the old clays of chivalry every lady had her knight, who
entered the lists and battled for her. Will you accept a football
player, who loves and glories in the game as your friend and
your knight, and promise me that you will never again unjustly
condemn the manly sport ?"
He held out his hand. She laid hers in it, nor made an effort
to draw it away as the moments flitted silently by.
She had found the answer to her question.
When the strains of Auf Wieclersehen changed to Home, Sweet
Home they came out and joined the crowd flowing toward the
dressing rooms. Befdre he surrendered her to Jack, whom he
saw coming through the crowd to claim her, he said : " I leave
at noon to-morrow. May I come and say Good-Bye ?"
Her only answer was a sweet little smile and the question,
" Is it necessary to ask permission ?"
Football had won, and the girl with a career to live had com
menced that career.
THE COST OF' COLLEGIATE EDUCATION
Henry Loomis Nelson has recently written: "It would hardly
be an exaggeration to say that the opening of the collegiate year
is a more important event than the opening of a session of Con
gress." Believing that the above is an underestimate of the truth
rather than the reverse, any question affecting the individual and
general workings of our educational system ought to carry both
H. M. ANDRMS, '9B