College stories; Women college students -- Juvenile fiction
After breakfast the girls collected here and there about the
reading-room and halls in little groups. Miss Remington came up at
once to where Jean was standing and talked casually about her room and
trunks and then asked her how long her cousin would remain with her.
Upon hearing that she was to leave that evening she promised to spend
the night with Jean, so she wouldn't get lonesome. Jean was delighted,
for to herself she admitted that Marjorie appealed much more to her
than any of the other girls she had met, excepting, perhaps, Natalie
Lawton. She hoped they were going to be good friends even if they were
not in the same class.
Registration was to be at ten o'clock and Nan suggested that they go
up to 45 and talk over studies before Jean made out her programme.
She had arranged some tennis with Peggy and Natalie at ten-thirty and
then after lunch they would take the first train for Boston. Nan had
been a good, all-around girl in college, but had maintained a high
standard in her studies and was anxious to have Jean do the same,
but she was discovering that Jean cared very little for her books.
Every freshman was required to take English and mathematics and had
the choice of the other subjects. As Jean had been conditioned in
French her cousin suggested that she begin at once to remove the
condition. By satisfactorily completing a course in French at the end
of the year this could be done. Jean agreed to this and then after
much discussion she decided to add German, oratory and music to the
list, with gymnasium work twice a week. Mathematics and German were
to come Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings; French and English,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings; oratory once a week on a day
to be announced later; "gym" two hours each on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons and music two hours a week when she could arrange it with
the instructor.
"That looks like a pretty stiff programme to me, Nan," said Jean; "I
don't see any time in the week for anything but studying. A girl can't
study all the time, you know. I want to do other things, too."
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