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The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories

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The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories (1908)
by Jesse Lynch Williams
2408529The Girl and the Game and Other College Stories1908Jesse Lynch Williams


[Front matter]

THE GIRL AND
THE GAME

AND OTHER COLLEGE STORIES

BOOKS BY JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS


The Day Dreamer. Being the full narrative of "The Stolen Story." 12mo $1.26
The Adventures of a Freshman. Illustrated by Fletcher C. Ransom. 12mo $1.26

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.

In the later pages of the volume college life is dealt with from the point of view of an "old" graduate, who thinks he knows all about it. He is somewhat sententious, but he means well. Note how patiently the undergraduate listens. But I wonder what he really thinks.

J. L. W.

CONTENTS

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    225

ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. "Ann," I said, "I am awkward and overgrown"
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    Frontispiece
  2. Facing page
  3. On the side lines
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    8
  4. The whole crowd came down the street toward him
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    54
  5. Alone, to wait for morning, with his dead father
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    78
  6. With his big arms outstretched
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    198
  7. They were brought in for a hearing before the President
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    246

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1929, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 94 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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