“We sure can,” Philip assented, much delighted to find himself social arbiter. “I’ll be at your desk at 4:05.” So Philip came to Jeannette’s desk, and they began on the list. “There’s Sam Blennerman, he’s a good fellow. You’ll want him,” he suggested, as they came to one of his new chums. “That stuffy little snob? I should say not!” Jeannette lifted her nose in great scorn. “The other day I heard him making fun of Earl Stubbs because he stayed out to go to church in Lent. I think he’s insufferable!” “Do you? Oh, he’s not so bad when you know him, though. Well, how about Vernon East?” “He smells like a tobacco shop. I never saw him without one of those nasty little rolls of his in evidence. Father would want to know what I was coming to.” “Sylvia Fanslow, Mark Gorham, Francis Hingham—I suppose they all go on?” Philip held a tentative pencil in air. “Yes. And Emil Irwin. Leave out Leonard James, of course.” “But why? His family’s awfully good, and he’s no end of fun. Keeps things in a roar, you know.” “Yes, I know. I know his kind of a roar—he thinks he’s such a man of the world. But isn’t he the boy Mr. Burcher almost expelled for swearing on the campus?” “Well, yes, he is. But you wouldn’t expect him to swear at your party you know.” “Naturally not. But I haven’t any use for a boy who has one set of words for girls and another for boys. That’s a double standard and mother says double standards of any kind are bad.” Philip was suffering a revision of his ideals at the hands of this girl. In the evenings he spent at her house, planning the party, he came to revise them further still as a result of the tactful suggestion of Jeannette’s mother. When the party was over, he found his taste for the “fast crowd” had disappeared. To keep Jeannette’s good opinion he would have pretended to believe anything, but so pliable is youth before habit has fixed one’s attitudes, that he had really come to believe in the same high standards that Jeannette held. DIVISION VIII The aim of the teacher should be to obtain reverence for law; the law of the game, the law of competition, the law of the school, the law of the state, and ultimately the law of his own life development, and the law of God. —_Hughes._ CASES ARISING OUT OF THE REGULATIVE INSTINCTS 1. Differing Ideals Lead to Conflict in the Regulation of Conduct