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, 2d, the son of the well-known Robert J. Elliot, came to college from a large prep. school, suffering from enlargement of his Ego. It is a common disease, but usually they get over it in Freshman year. At least they did in those days, though there were cases even then where serious lapses occurred. Elliott's symptoms were only aggravated by his Freshman year—for the following reasons:

The faction from his school wanted to nominate one of their crowd for a class officer at the first elections, held early in the term before the Freshmen knew many of their class-mates by sight. Elliot had been running nearly everything at school, and though some of them were down upon him, they put him up for treasurer or secretary or something, because they thought he