PATIENCE PROMISES TO STAND BY For the next three days Patience Eliot passed successfully for a freshman.

Then came the sudden dismaying rumor that she was registered in the sophomore theme class.

A little later it was announced positively that she had passed up freshman French.

The truth suddenly burst upon certain members of the sophomore class who had selected Miss Eliot as a splendid subject for sophomore grinds, when, on the occasion of their first class meeting, she walked quietly into the class room where it was to be held, and took her place with a cheerful, matter-of-course air that was very disturbing to various abashed sophomores who had planned mischief.
Far from being angry, the astonished sophomores treated the New England girl's mild deception as a joke, and by it she sprang into instant popularity with her class.

There were a few disgruntled students who criticized her, but these were so far in the minority that they counted for little.