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 =CHAPTER XVIII=

ANFORD’S virtues were hard for Hugh t( find, and they grew more inconspicuous as th< term advanced. For the time being nothing seemed worth while: he was disgusted with himself the undergraduates, and the fraternity; he felt thai the college had bilked him. Often he thought oi the talk he had had with his father before he lef for college. Sometimes that talk seemed funny entirely idiotic, but sometimes it infuriated him What right had his father to send him off to colleg with such fool ideas in his head? Nu Delta, th perfect brotherhood! Bull! How did his fathe get that way, anyhow? Hugh had yet to lean that nearly every chapter changes character at leas once a decade and that Nu Delta thirty years earlie had been an entirely different organization fron what it was at present. At times he felt that hi father had deliberately deceived him, but in quiete moments he knew better; then he realized that h father was a dreamer and an innocent, a delicate] minded man who had never really known anythin about Sanford College or the world either. Hug often felt older and wiser than his father; and many ways he was.