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Chapter 34 - (VERSO)

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meeting all the new students, learning to know the professors by sight and being assorted and organized into classes. Anne intended taking up the Second Year work, being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same. This meant getting a First Class teacher’s license in one year instead of two, if they were successful. Jane, Ruby, Josie, Charlie, and Moody Spurgeon, not being troubled with the stirrings of ambition, were content to take up the Second Class work. Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in a room with fifty other students, not one of whom she knew, except the


TEXT ANNOTATION

"taking up the Second Year work": Montgomery did this as well. Anne, like Montgomery, crammed two years into one, striving for a first-class license in one year, rather than in the more customary two years.