Excerpt from Across the Campus: A Story of College Life It was a hot September afternoon, and in a pleasant third-story room of Mrs. Hemp's "Boarding-House for College Students," two girls were engaged in a lively discussion. They had arranged both beds to suit one of them - no two room-mates ever entertained the same view with regard to the position of their beds - and had shifted the poor lame wash-stand but five times, although it had shed a castor at each one of these journeys, save the last, and would gladly have contributed another, had it not become reduced in circumstances. At present the intensity of their discussion was increased by the fact that Ruth had just upset a box of tacks, and Christine had stepped on them. "That was a cowardly onslaught!" cried the victim, spinning around on one unhappy toe. "There is n't a thing about college that I like so far, although it does n't begin till to-morrow; and I had on my thin slippers too!" "Sit down on my bed, and pick the tacks out of the soles, please, Chris," was the unsympathetic answer. "I must have them to put up these photographs with." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.