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But it was rather hard on Fr hman Bean . H e d idn 't kno• the wily editor of the Ectt o . Few men do. Of cour e you can 't blarn Angier ; i t ' t rying on any man · pat ience to haYe an older i ter for chap ron . It happened in this ' i e. The Stone were u 1 to Cantata reh ar al and Good,Yin was casting about for an a i tan t . The nl) p rom i ing mark in igh t wa B a n , wh had never met th p tep the bri k editor an I clap th fr shman on the shoulder . " See here ld man, I wa nt you to do me a favo r, take M i tone down hom e , wil l o u , " w i t h a n d t \vard 1 i . M arion . ' Me ! \Vh y, I e n ver met her " aid Bean . N t ev n a. frown pa. eel over the face of the ready pol itician but with a wink to " R cky wh o wa stancl in by , he made ha t to say, Why ye you haYe too, m a n . I t wa ju t the other day he wa speakino· of h a keel if you didn ' t graduate meet ing y u at th P re ident ' R cepti n. from Thornt n , ' · I d n't remember meet ing her." " O h , that al l rio-ht he remem ber ou-that the t u ff . " 1 1 rio-h t, i f y o u a y s h e know m e , " a n d Bean l ut on hi p u t t y s m i l e a n d meandered aero th chap 1 . \ hen h e reached h is de t i nation he a urned t h e proper impe r . w, naow, clonch r kn w M i t n e , may I ha,·e the plazure- ' But t h e demur maiden with a qu t io n i n rr glance said, " I 'm ,·er) pl a ·eel to meet you , but I didn't u nder ·tand the nam e .' ' , I a ked for the plazure-er-of-er-" " l be y ur pardon, M r .- ?" " ' , I see, I 'm that man fr m Th rn ton ,' Thornt n ! Th rn t n ! I hop y u ' ill xcu e me, b u t I don ' t recollect t b c place " \\'ith a n air of p rpl xity . But A n o-ier and Elean r had already departed and the curtain fel l . S o here the · to ry encl f r all but Bean . ·
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S o T H CoLLEGE F r R E . Atch : " Did y u k now the men in South Coll ege had lost their scholar h i p ?" The man wh o bite ! ' No, b o·w d i d that happen ?" At h : " Why the Faculty could mell moke on them at chapel t h is morn ing." *
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