With cries of amazement the alarmed sophomores broke and scattered before the oncoming freshmen.

" "Oh, you wait till we get at you fresh ducks!" shouted back an angry sophomore.

" Out they rushed, but once more the crafty sophomores had vanished, and not one of them was to be found.

" "'Way down in ole Virginny," softly warbled one of the delighted sophomores.

" The party came trooping in, and Frank was not a little astonished to observe among them Bruce Browning, a big, strong, lazy sophomore, a fellow who was known to be a great hand to plan deviltry which was usually carried into execution by his friends.

I have seen a country-clergyman, with a one-story intellect and a one-horse vocabulary, who has consumed his valuable time (and mine) freely, in developing an opinion of a brother-minister's discourse which would have been abundantly characterized by a peach-down-lipped sophomore in the one wordslow.

In the meantime other sophomores were making life miserable for Tubbs.

The broad-shouldered old white Congregational meeting-house stood at the top of the street in Field Park; it was the goal of restless Sophomores for several hours every Sunday, and it was also the goal of all ambitious contestants for college honors.

schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph^, junior; senior soph^, senior; sophister^, sophomore; questionist^.

" When everything was ready, one of the savages actually touched a match to the various piles of brush about the feet of the unfortunate sophomores.