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Rh be the rector's guest, and make a speech on field-day.

All the fellows who had gone in for track athletics were tremendously elated. If they could only win a prize, how near they would be to the President when they came up to receive it—within three or four feet of him, maybe! And all the fellows who had gone in for baseball and rowing felt correspondingly chagrined. There would be no chance for them.

But it was Harry whose position seemed to them all most enviable.

"You'll meet him—stand right up and talk to him!" Bruce Watson made the discovery at supper that night. "Oh, what a cinch!"

Harry was so frankly joyous over his opportunity that no one could feel very resentful about it, and the teasing he received concerning his chances for a diplomatic appointment or a place in the Cabinet was all good-natured.

He lost no time in setting about the prepara-