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Thanks to the fact that one had to pay only ten dollars matriculation fee and twelve dollars a semester, June was able to spend the next two years at the state university.

One of the boys she went with there told her one time after he had read some of the short stories she had written for her English class, “what you need is perspective, my dear” And when June looked back on those two years in after life, it was always with what she thought of as perspective.

Of her studies, she remembered very little. She flunked in 2 course in biology because she skipped most of the classes and when her examination pa- pers were set in front of her, the only thing she could remember was the definition of the word “sport.” :

She took a bird course because it consisted of two trips a week through the fields and woods about the little town and because a boy she liked was taking it with her.

The thing which impressed. her most in the course in American literature was the professor’s futile at- tempts to implant in the minds of his students the