[Grace Harlowe’s Fourth Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Fourth Year at Overton College CHAPTER XVII 7/16
I claim the privilege of changing the subject, too. What is the object of this class meeting ?" Grace was about to explain, when a murmur of voices in the hall announced that the seniors had begun to gather for the meeting.
Within ten minutes every seat in the room was occupied, and Arline Thayer, now president of the senior class, called the meeting to order.
"As there is no particular business to be transacted," announced Arline, "what is the pleasure of the class? Will the person or persons responsible for the notice on the bulletin board please rise and enlighten the class as to why we are here ?" "Madam President," Emma Dean rose from her seat and addressed the chair, "I wrote the notice.
It was the outcome of a session in which a number of the seniors had been discussing ways and means of making 19-- famous in the annals of Overton." Emma proceeded in her clever, humorous fashion to lay before the class the project of a play to be written by a member of one of the four classes and produced and enacted by the seniors.
"If we allow any girl in college who wishes to compete for the honor pin we shall have a greater variety of plays from which to choose. It will also be a good opportunity to discover any lights that might otherwise be so securely hidden under bushels of modesty that no one would ever see them. "The rules for the contestants will be very simple.
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