CHAPTER

I—­Trouble Brewing
II—­Challenged and Hazed
III—­The Blow
IV—­The Fight
V—­The Finish
VI—­A Fresh Council
VII—­A Surprise
VIII—­The “Roast” at East Rock
IX—­The Duel
X—­At Morey’s
XI—­“Lambda Chi!”
XII—­Freshman Against Sophomore
XIII—­Jubilant Freshmen
XIV—­The Rush
XV—­On the Ball Field
XVI—­To Break an Enemy’s Wrist
XVII—­Talking it Over
XVIII—­Merriwell and Rattleton
XIX—­Who is the Traitor? 
XX—­A Hot Chase
XXI—­Roast Turkey
XXII—­A Surprise for Frank
XXIII—­The Yale Spirit
XXIV—­Gordon Expresses Himself
XXV—­The Traitor Discovered
XXVI—­The Race
XXVII—­A Change of Pitchers
XXVIII—­The Game Grows Hotter
XXIX—­The End of the Game
XXX—­Rattleton is Excited
XXXI—­What Ditson Wanted
XXXII—­Ditson is Trapped
XXXIII—­“Play Ball”
XXXIV—­A Hot Finish

FRANK MERRIWELL AT YALE,

CHAPTER I.

Trouble brewing.

  “Here’s to good old Yale—­drink it down! 
  Here’s to good old Yale—­drink it down! 
  Here’s to good old Yale,
  She’s so hearty and so hale—­
  Drink it down!  Drink it down! down! down!”

From the open window of his rooms on York Street Frank Merriwell heard the distant chorus of a rollicking band of students who had been having a merry evening in town.

Frank had passed his examinations successfully and had been admitted as a student at Yale.  In order to accomplish this without taking a preparatory course at Phillips Academy, he had found it necessary to vigorously “brush up” the knowledge he had acquired at the Fardale Military Academy which was a college preparatory school.

Professor Scotch, Frank’s guardian, had been of great assistance to him, for the professor knew just about what would be required at the entrance examination, and he had kept the boy digging away away at the propositions in the First Book of Euclid, had drilled him in Caesar, caused him to spend weary hours over Virgil and the Iliad, and made him not a little weary of his Xenophon.

As he passed without a condition, although he had been told again and again that a course at Phillips Academy was almost an absolute necessity, Frank was decidedly grateful to the professor.

Professor Scotch’s anxiety had brought him to New Haven, where he remained “till the agony was over,” as Frank expressed it.  The little man bubbled over with delight when he found his protege had gone through without a struggle.

Having secured the rooms on York Street, the professor saw Frank comfortably settled, and then, before taking his departure, he attempted to give the boy some wholesome advice.