# The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories

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THE GIRL AND
THE GAME
AND OTHER COLLEGE STORIES
BOOKS BY JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
New York Sketches. Illustrated. 8vo $2.50
Princeton Stories. 12mo $1.00
The Girl and the Game, and Other College Stories. 12mo $1.50
"Ann," I said, "I am awkward and overgrown."
THE GIRL AND THE GAME
AND
OTHER COLLEGE STORIES
By
JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS
AUTHOR OF "THE STOLEN STORY," "MY LOST DUCHESS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
153-157 Fifth Avenue : : New York
Copyright, 1906, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published May, 1908
To
BURTON WILLIAMS
NOTE
Some of the people in this book have already appeared in one or two others. "Poler" Stacy was in "Princeton Stories." So was his friend Stehman, a football man; there is a whole story about him this time. Another athletic type, a different sort, named "Deacon" Young—the hard-studying, self-supporting sort—was the hero of a whole book called "The Adventures of a Freshman." Here he appears briefly (in a Broadway window) at a later stage of his career—but still serious; he always will be. Some of the rest may be remembered by those who read the books referred to. Other characters are new.
J. L. W.
CONTENTS
Page
* The Girl and the Game ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
* The College and the Circus ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................19
* At the Corner of Lovers' Lane ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................59
* Leg Pull ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* Reddy Armstrong's Reformation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................123
* The Advantages of a College Education ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................147
* The Man in the Window ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................183
* What the Old Graduate Learned ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................207
* Talks with a Kid Brother ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................225
    The First Day at College
    On Hazing
    Trying for the Team
    Concerning Horse-Play
    Concerning the "Nicest Fellows"
    Work and Other Dissipations
    The Best Thing in the World
    An Unofficial Baccalaureate
ILLUSTRATIONS
* "Ann," I said, "I am awkward and overgrown" ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Frontispiece
* Facing page
* On the side lines ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................8
* The whole crowd came down the street toward him ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................54
* Alone, to wait for morning, with his dead father ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................78
* With his big arms outstretched ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................198
* They were brought in for a hearing before the President ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................246
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