She really looks upon boys as good comrades , and she is pleased when she has dozens of them tagging round , simply because she likes to be popular and to be thought popular . Even Alex and Alonzo -- I 'll never be able to think of those two names separately after this -- are to her just two playfellows who want her to play with them all their lives . I 'm glad we met her , and I 'm glad we went to Old St. John 's . I believe I 've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon . I hope so . I hate to feel transplanted . '' Chapter V Letters from Home For the next three weeks Anne and Priscilla continued to feel as strangers in a strange land . Then , suddenly , everything seemed to fall into focus -- Redmond , professors , classes , students , studies , social doings . Life became homogeneous again , instead of being made up of detached fragments . The Freshmen , instead of being a collection of unrelated individuals , found themselves a class , with a class spirit , a class yell , class interests , class antipathies and class ambitions . They won the day in the annual `` Arts Rush '' against the Sophomores , and thereby gained the respect of all the classes , and an enormous , confidence-giving opinion of themselves . For three years the Sophomores had won in the `` rush '' ; that the victory of this year perched upon the Freshmen 's banner was attributed to the strategic generalship of Gilbert Blythe , who marshalled the campaign and originated certain new tactics , which demoralized the Sophs and swept the Freshmen to triumph . As a reward of merit he was elected president of the Freshman Class , a position of honor and responsibility -- from a Fresh point of view , at least -- coveted by many . He was also invited to join the `` Lambs '' -- Redmondese for Lamba Theta -- a compliment rarely paid to a Freshman . As a preparatory initiation ordeal he had to parade the principal business streets of Kingsport for a whole day wearing a sunbonnet and a voluminous kitchen apron of gaudily flowered calico . This he did cheerfully , doffing his sunbonnet with courtly grace when he met ladies of his acquaintance . Charlie Sloane , who had not been asked to join the Lambs , told Anne he did not see how Blythe could do it , and HE , for his part , could never humiliate himself so . `` Fancy Charlie Sloane in a ` caliker ' apron and a ` sunbunnit , ' '' giggled Priscilla . `` He 'd look exactly like his old Grandmother Sloane . Gilbert , now , looked as much like a man in them as in his own proper habiliments . ''
XXXXX and Priscilla found themselves in the thick of the social life of Redmond .
Alex Anne Redmond Sloane annual antipathies caliker day habiliments years