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Rh eonard Gates, however, felt otherwise; and he¬ re Hugh knew what had happened he was a ndidate along with thirty other juniors, only reive of whom could be elected. He took no part in the campaigning, attended me of the caucuses, was hardly interested in the aternity “combine” that promised to elect him. e did not believe that he could be elected; he w no reason why he should be. As a matter of ct, as Gates and others well knew, his chances
 * re more than good. Hugh was popular in his

m right, and his great race in the Sanfordileigh meet had made him something of a hero r the time being. Furthermore, he was a member both the Glee and Banjo Clubs, he had led his ss in the spring sings for three years, and he had respectable record in his studies. The tapping took place in chapel the last week classes. After the first hymn, the retiring mbers of the Boule rose and marched down the le to where the juniors were sitting. The new mbers were tapped in the order of the number votes that they had received, and the first man ped, having received the largest number of es, automatically became president of the Boule the coming year. Tugh’s interest naturally picked up the day of election, and he began to have faint hopes that would be the tenth or eleventh man. To his