And then I make good resolutions; but the first nice-looking mannie who comes my way knocks them all out of my head.
Isn't college life magnificent?
It's so funny to think I hated it that first day.

But if I hadn't I might never got really acquainted with you.
Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit.

I yearn to hear it." "I like you a big bit--and I think you're a dear, sweet, adorable, velvety, clawless, little--kitten," laughed Anne, "but I don't see when you ever get time to learn your lessons." Phil must have found time for she held her own in every class of her year.

Even the grumpy old professor of Mathematics, who detested coeds, and had bitterly opposed their admission to Redmond, couldn't floor her.
She led the freshettes everywhere, except in English, where Anne Shirley left her far behind.

Anne herself found the studies of her Freshman year very easy, thanks in great part to the steady work she and Gilbert had put in during those two past years in Avonlea.