Miss Burd, careful for the cause of discipline, made a new rule that any form showing a record of a single cross for conduct would be debarred for a week from the use of the asphalt tennis-courts, a decidedly drastic measure, but one that in her opinion was necessary to meet the emergency.
Though the disorder was mostly among the juniors, Va was not altogether immune from the microbe.

It really began with a quarrel between Ingred and Beatrice Jackson.

The latter was a type of girl common enough in all large schools.

She was not always scrupulously honorable over her work, but she liked to curry favor with the mistresses.

She copied her exercises shamelessly, would surreptitiously look up words in the midst of unseen Latin translation, and was capable not only of other meannesses, but sometimes of a downright deliberate fib.