Excerpt from The Green Caldron, Vol. 19: A Magazine of Freshman Writing; November, 1949 The faculty's light view of such a serious enterprise only put me on my mettle and drove me to greater efforts. I worked between classes, during reere ation period, and frequently at night, in order to have the car in the best pos sible running order by the beginning of vacation. My best friend, Dan Pope, became interested in the project and decided to join me. At this point Major Harper, who taught Motors, furnished valuable aid by putting some of his classes to work on the car. The problem of obtaining manifold gaskets for such an old model almost stopped us, but again Major Harper came to our aid. Kicking the right rear tire in a friendly way with the wooden leg he had brought back from the First World War, he assured us that with little added effort we could make the gaskets ourselves. As the day of departure approached, the faculty, further incited by the knowledge that we intended to add six hundred miles to the trip in order to spend a week-end in Bay City, Michigan, began to bet on the success or failure of our journey. A foot of snow was reported just north of the Indiana line. And as several inches had fallen on Culver the night before vacation started, the reported betting was said to be strongly favoring the weather. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.