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“She’ll be more than glad to get them, I guess,” ventured Roberta, “because Professor Eaton puts such nice things on her work. I saw one of her ten-minute themes, and the comment was awfully flattering,—all about clever phrasing and original thought.”

“It was!” said Mary, sitting up suddenly and surrendering the fudge pan to Betty. “I’m so relieved! My department in the ‘Argus’ isn’t half made up for this month, and perhaps she’ll help me out.”

“How did you hear of her?” asked Helen curiously. She was very much interested in the workings of the “Argus,” board, though she would not have admitted it, even to Betty.

“Oh, I didn’t hear of her,” answered Mary. “She put a theme on the bulletin board for me. You know the grand new policy of the ‘Argus’ is to solicit as little material as possible, but to ask people to send things to us, instead. Have you seen our big new sign on the societies’ bulletin board? It was Miss Mills’s idea. She thought it would bring out a lot of new talent, and make the ‘Argus’ more representative and democratic. It’s a splendid theory, but about this time in the month, when the printer is clamoring for copy, we have to drop our theories and apply to the same old standbys. It’s queer how the people who want to write are generally just the people who can’t.”