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This grin is more refined-it almost approaches a smile like unto thc gentle Dean's. The sub- ject now assumes a more intelligent look, and is even observed smiling to himself. (No visible excitation being present, we conclude that the smile is due to some past memory when the subject was yet a "brute" in the wilds of the" Prep." school.) At this stage of development the agent may be buried in thought, witb a care- worn expression on his face, when suddenly his face lights up-a grin appears and then it facies away into the same melancholy expression again. (The victim has seen his "strike," and the violent convulsions of the brain produced temporary facial distortion.j When" strikes" are near each other the excitation is very great, and cerebral convulsions produce perpetual smiles. The vibra.t.ionssometimes reach 4,000 per second. In the Junior year the girls are very adept, and indicate a most refined sen- sibility of vvhar is graceful and proper. They have run the gamut of conquests, and havc likely demolished the hearts of more than one of the sterner sex. The smile indicates-" I like to smile at you, but ifyou smile at another girl I'll get another strike-so beware!" And the young man usually bewares. The art of smiling reaches its culmination in the Senior year. At that time a dusky shade appears on the upper lip of the dignified Senior, and the smile has a ver-yspirituelle expression. It sometimes is very condescending toward those in the lower classes, and it lacks the vacant stare and -I- 163 -1-