"She seems to have become quite a power among some of the girls in the class.

She is helping to destroy that spirit of earnestness that you have tried so hard to cultivate.

I think it's a shame, too.

The upper class girls ought to set the example for the two lower classes." "That's just what worries me," said Grace earnestly.

"Hardly a recitation passes in my class without some kind of disturbance, and it is always traced to one of the girls in that crowd.