Bryn Mawr (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Bryn Mawr College -- Fiction; College stories, American; Women college students -- Fiction
That clever young person whom Marjorie had found so problematical, was
now, by the end of the second Semester, working herself out to a
satisfactory solution. The slight change which had already, under the
energetic training of Marjorie, taken place in her was remarked by many
who had known her in her freshest freshman days, even though they did
not know of the influence that had wrought it. She was more alert, more
sympathetic than she had been when first the senior started her upon a
course not laid down in the college program; but not being of an
introspective nature, she was hardly conscious of the utter difference
between her former and her present points of view.
Her attitude towards the question of the next European Fellow, (that
annual earthquake whose rumblings so agitate the entire college with
increasing violence until the shock of the final announcement rends it)
was a delightful index to Marjorie of her own success in crusading, and
of what she considered Marian's improved mental condition resulting
therefrom. They talked it over, as do any two Bryn Mawr girls who are
together for more than five minutes at this period of the year; and
Marian, somewhat diffidently because she was a freshman talking of
seniors, said she very much hoped that Carroll Mayo would be the choice
of the Faculty. Why? Oh, because she was the sort of person the college
might for every reason be proud to have represent it at a foreign
university.
Didn't she think other people were as promising candidates? Marjorie had
inquired. Oh, yes, but personally she wanted to see a girl as charming
and as "all-round" as Carroll win. She thought Eleanor Mertoun another
great person for the honour,--supposed Kate Murray had a show, but she
wasn't very enthusiastic about _her_.
In the meantime, the senior class, with the best possible right, was in
a state of ferment that was not to be relieved save by the knowledge of
which one of them was chosen for such well-nigh crushing honour. As
March advanced, all other topics of conversation at breakfast, lunch,
and dinner, during long walks, or strolls about the campus on the way to
lectures, or from the athletic field, were relegated to the forgotten
corners of the mental attic; and "who do _you_ think will have the
fellowship?" was the incessant question.
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