Betty Wales, Senior

Senior year begins at Harding with Betty Wales and Rachel Morrison welcoming new students at the railway station. Between missing trunks, shared ices and reunions with friends, Betty is already conscious that this familiar life has only one year left. Rachel, who expects to earn her own living after college, brings a different set of hopes and pressures to the same approaching farewell.

Edith K. Dunton's college story mixes cheerful conversation with decisions that test friendship. A dispute over casting a student play raises the question of whether favors should influence committee choices, while Roberta Lewis's missing pin revives concern about thefts on campus. The appeal lies in the small negotiations of group life: welcoming newcomers, judging fairly and caring for a friend who arrives cold and upset. Readers interested in older stories of women's education will find both campus comedy and an awareness of differences in money and opportunity.