WHAT THE OLD GRADUATE LEARNED
—and so forth. The new gang was more congenial, you mean."
"Um—yes, that is, some of them; others weren't my sort, but that was the crowd, you see."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, it's this way, unless you are a prominent athlete or something of that sort, the crowd you get in with has everything to do with your success and"
"Success! well, never mind, go on."
"Yes, otherwise you probably won't make any of the clubs. The men in the clubs can't know many of the under-classmen personally—the classes are too large, so they elect in whole bunches at once. I thought that every one knew that. The point is to get in with the right bunch, don't you see? That's the first thing. I picked out the right bunch."
"Go on."
"Well, I er"
"Boot-licked?"
"Oh, no, but I got in with the gang—most prominent men in the class they were
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