College stories; Women college students -- Juvenile fiction
The little party stood and watched the long procession of
undergraduates take possession of the great Stadium as they marched up
and down, across and around the field. When they reached either goal
every hat was off and tossed up over the cross-bar and caught again by
the nearest man as it came down. After fifteen or twenty minutes of
this the procession passed out of the gate, the leaders carrying the
victorious eleven upon their backs, and soon they were lost from sight,
although their shouting and singing could be heard long after.
It was almost dark when Mrs. Nutter and her guests took their places
in the automobile. They had been obliged to wait a long time for the
machine, as there were so many others ahead of them. However, they made
up for lost time by tearing with the highest speed toward Boston. As
they were crossing Harvard Bridge Jean begged them to stop a moment,
for the three bridges spanning the Charles seemed to be but parallel
lines of bright lights which in the darkness presented a most novel
appearance. She saw the lighted dome of the State House for the first
time and exclaimed upon its height and brilliancy. "I wish I had to
cross Harvard Bridge every night, it is so beautiful here," she said as
they started off again.
A table had been reserved for them at the Touraine and they found
themselves among a merry throng of young people, most of them the
supporters of the crimson and jubilant over their victory. Here and
there were Yale men and their guests and the men and girls circulated
from one table to another renewing acquaintances.
It was a little late when they arrived at the theater and the play
had already begun. The house had been bought up by the Yale men and
decorations of blue were everywhere. The singers had touches of blue
in their costumes and sang the good old Yale songs, and at the end
of the second act threw hundreds of rolls of blue confetti out over
the audience. No one pretended to know anything about the comic opera
itself, for there was so much Yale music introduced, so many jokes
about the football players and the game, so much applause and singing
on the part of those in the audience that the real plot, if there could
be said to be one, was almost lost sight of.
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