Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against

TROUBLE BREWING."Here's to good old Yale-drink it down! Here's to good old Yale-drinkit down! Here's to good old Yale, She's so hearty and so hale- Drinkit down! Drink it down! down! down!"From the open window of his rooms on York Street Frank Merriwell heardthe distant chorus of a rollicking band of students who had been having amerry evening in town.Frank had passed his examinations successfully and had been admitted as astudent at Yale. In order to accomplish this without taking a preparatorycourse at Phillips Academy, he had found it necessary to vigorously "brushup" the knowledge he had acquired at the Fardale Military Academy whichwas a college preparatory school.Professor Scotch, Frank's guardian, had been of great assistance to him, forthe professor knew just about what would be required at the entrance ex-amination, and he had kept the boy digging away away at the propositionsin the First Book of Euclid, had drilled him in Caesar, caused him to spend3 BURT L. STANDISHweary hours over Virgil and the Iliad, and made him not a little weary of hisXenophon.As he passed without a condition, although he had been told again and againthat a course at Phillips Academy was almost an absolute necessity, Frankwas decidedly grateful to the professor.Professor Scotch's anxiety had brought him to New Haven, where he re-mained "till the agony was over," as Frank expressed it. The little man bub-bled over with delight when he found his protégé had gone through withouta struggle.Having secured the rooms on York Street, the professor saw Frank comfort-ably settled, and then, before taking his departure, he attempted to give theboy some wholesome advice."Don't try to put on many frills here the first year," he said. "You will findthat freshmen do not cut much of a figure here. It doesn't make any differ-ence what you have done or what you have been elsewhere, you will have toestablish a record by what you do and what you become here. You'll findthese fellows here won't care a rap if you have discovered the North Poleor circumnavigated the globe in-er-ah-ten days. It will be all the betterfor you if you do not let them know you are rich in your own name andhave traveled in South America, Africa, Europe, and other countries. They'dthink you were bragging or lying if you mentioned it, and-""You know well enough that I am not given to boasting about myself, pro-fessor, and so you are wasting your breath," said Frank, rather resentfully."Hum! ha! Don't fly off the handle-keep cool. I know you have sand, andyou're made of the right kind of stuff; but you are the greatest hand