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Rh ty to both the girls and the talk that confused him. For some reason he did n’t like the atmosphere; and de did n’t know why. His excuse to the brothers and to himself for leaving early was that he was in
 * raining and not supposed to dance.

Track above all things was absorbing his inter¬ est. He could hardly think of anything else. He lay awake nights dreaming of the race he would run against Raleigh. Sanford had three dual track neets a year, but the first two were with small coleges and considered of little importance. Only i point winner in the Raleigh meet was granted his etter.

Hugh won the hundred in the sophomore-freshnan meet and in a meet with the Raleigh freshnen, so that he was given his class numerals. He did nothing, however, in the Raleigh meet; he vas much too nervous to run well, breaking three
 * imes at the mark. He was set back two yards

md was never able to regain them. For a time he vas bitterly despondent, but he soon cheered up vhen he thought of the three years ahead of him. Spring brought first rain and slush and then the ‘sings.” There was a fine stretch of lawn in the
 * enter of the campus, and on clear nights the stu¬

dents gathered there for a sing, one class on each jide of the lawn. First the seniors sang a college
 * ong, then the juniors, then the sophomores, and
 * hen the freshmen. After each song, the other