Elfreda's love for the game and the story of her persistent effort to reduce her weight in order to glitter as a prominent basketball star had become familiar to not only her upper class friends, but throughout the college as well.

She had several freshmen adorers, who sent her violets and vied with one another in entertaining her whenever she had an hour or two to spare them.

In fact, J.Elfreda Briggs was becoming an important factor in the social life of Overton, with the satisfaction of knowing that she had won a place in the hearts of her admirers through her own merit.
Considerable preparation in the way of decorations had been made.

About the balcony railing green and yellow bunting mingled with that of junior blue.

The two front rows were well filled with members of the faculty, who wore ribbon rosettes with long ends and carried banners of blue, or green and yellow, as the case might be.