"SHE'S _MY_ GIRL! HANDS OFF!"
"LOOK! FLANNELS FOR MAMMA'S BOY!"
"COME ON--I KNOW WHERE THERE'S LIQUID REFRESHMENT!"
"THAT'S CYNTHIA DAY--A REAL HOTSY-TOTSY!"
"DANCE, SALOME!"
HUGH'S POPULARITY IS ESTABLISHED AFTER THE FIRST ATHLETIC TRY-OUTS.
"ONE TURN, HUGH, AND WE'LL QUIT THESE JOINTS FOR GOOD!"
CARL FORGETS HIS ANIMOSITY IN HONEST ADMIRATION FOR HUGH.




THE PLASTIC AGE




CHAPTER I


When an American sets out to found a college, he hunts first for a hill.
John Harvard was an Englishman and indifferent to high places. The
result is that Harvard has become a university of vast proportions and
no color. Yale flounders about among the New Haven shops, trying to rise
above them. The Harkness Memorial tower is successful; otherwise the
university smells of trade. If Yale had been built on a hill, it would
probably be far less important and much more interesting.

Hezekiah Sanford was wise; he found first his hill and then founded his