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 up early to pull down the Sophomores' proclamations, and you took a fall out of Ballard and"

"But say, Lucky." "But say—nonsense. What are friends for anyway? You made a great mistake to go off and bury yourself. Here we are."

The next minute they entered a long, low room, and just then forty pairs of strong lungs sent out a hearty cheer for "the Deacon."

One day the following week William Young boarded a train for Colorado, where he was to take a position in a mining company—not a high position; one quite near the bottom, but one that would present opportunities later. As it was early in the day only four of his classmates were there to see him off; but as the train started out Young stood on the platform and waved his hat to them.

"It's a pretty good thing to go to college," he was thinking to himself, "for the friends one makes, if nothing else."