Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 54033-h.htm or 54033-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54033/54033-h/54033-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/54033/54033-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/whenshecamehome00presgoog WHEN SHE CAME HOME FROM COLLEGE [Illustration: (page 16) HEL-LO, LITTLE GIRL] WHEN SHE CAME HOME FROM COLLEGE by MARIAN KENT HURD and JEAN BINGHAM WILSON With Illustrations by George Gibbs [Illustration: TOVT RIEN OV RIEN] Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1909 Copyright, 1909, by Marian Kent Hurd and Jean Bingham Wilson All Rights Reserved Published October, 1909 Contents I. Alma Mater 1 II. Home 15 III. The Theory of Philosophy 40 IV. The Practice 56 V. The “Idgit” 81 VI. The Duchess 106 VII. “The Falling out of Faithful Friends” 128 VIII. Applied Philanthropy 142 IX. “Without” 170 X. The Vegetable Man’s Daughter 193 XI. Real Trouble 222 XII. The End of the Interregnum 249 Illustrations _Hel-lo, little girl_ (page 16) _Frontispiece_ _Cantyloops! What’s them?_ 68 _Why are you eating in here?_ 72 _In the middle of the floor sat the Idgit_ 104 _I’m Mrs. ’Arris, an’ I’ve come to ’elp you hout_ 108 _Such a sadly changed Gassy_ 182 _Barbara sank down wearily_ 190 When She Came Home From College CHAPTER I ALMA MATER “WELL, this is cheerful!” cried the Infant, as she stepped briskly into the room where the rest of the “Set” were dejectedly assembled. “What if this _is_ the last night of college! What if our diplomas _are_ all concealed in the tops of our top trays! Can’t this crowd be original enough to smile a little on our last evening, instead of looking like a country prayer-meeting?” The Infant cast herself upon the cushionless frame of a Morris armchair, and grinned at the forms on the packing-boxes around her. Her eyes roved round the disorderly room, stripped of the pretty portières, cushions, mandolins, and posters, which are as inevitably a part of a college suite as the curriculum is a part of the college itself. Even the Infant suppressed a sigh as she caught sight of the trunks outside in the corridor.