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Rh d chew the fat once a month.” True enough, t that gold helmet glittered enticingly in the eyes every student who did not possess one. For the first time Hugh’s studies meant more him than the undergraduate life. He had 3sen his instructors carefully, having learned >m three years of experience that the instructor ,s far more important than the title of the course. 2 had three classes in literature, one in music— rtly because it was a “snap” and partly because really wanted to know more about music—and 1 composition course with Henley, to him the >st important of the lot. He really studied, and at the end of the first •m received three A’s and two B’s, a very creditte record. What was more important than his
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joying his work; he was intellectually awakened d hungry for learning. Also, for the first time he really enjoyed the iternity. Jack Lawrence was proving an able esident,' and Nu Delta pledged a freshman dele¬ tion of which Hugh was genuinely proud. There re plenty of men in the chapter whom he did t like or toward whom he was indifferent, but he d learned to ignore them and center his interest those men whom he found congenial. The first term was ideal, but the second became maelstrom of doubt and trouble in which he