II A big crowd was at the station to meet Helen, including a good-looking boy who was standing close to her. Helen tried to make an impression on him. She did. She poked her umbrella into his eye. Then a tall, capable looking girl came up to Helen and told her she was her big sister. H elen thought a big brother would be more to the point, but she walked up to the campus with her, anyway. She held on to her carpet bag, t hough, for she wasn't going to let none of them co-eds put nothing over on her. On the way up to the campus H elen was almost ru n over by Ph il Cox's Ford from stopping in t he middle of the street to stare at t he big bu il dings and the S.A.E . house. Up to t hat tim e she had never seen anything bigger than the service station back at Troy. When Helen reached her room she found out she had to live with a roommate. She didn't like that, but the on ly vacant room was up on the third fl oor where the roof leaked, so H elen stayed where she was. As it turned out, H elen was very fortunate in her roommate. Her roommate had been to college before, and knew all about it. True, she had flunked out last year and had gone home on the Sob pecial, but she knew all about college anyway. She gave H elen the low-down about ever ything from Siggins to Prof. Barton's psychology course. You couldn't fool her.
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