A COLLEGE EDUCATION
would stand the best chance of election with the class at large. He thought it was because the crowd liked him best.
He was elected; partly because he was known as the son of Robert Elliot—most Freshmen have no personality at all—and partly because he had led some cheers during the rush with the Sophomores the night before. He thought it was because they recognized in him "one born to command," as his doting old-maid aunt had once said of him in his presence. So he mounted the platform, stood erect beside the class president just elected (the latter a football giant, very rattled), and was inspected by his class-mates while congratulated by the patronizing upper-classmen who were conducting the meeting and smoking pipes.
He was pleasing to look at, older than some of them, and not afraid of a crowd. So the class approved and cheered him and pounded on the desks vigorously. He hearkened to the cheers with a reserved. smile, and decided that his aunt was a good judge of human nature.
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