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They love it . Now keep them loving it . That 's your job . '' When the two came back at noon , they were radiant and enthusiastic as usual , albeit they had many a growl to express . One would have thought to hear Allison that he had been running colleges for some fifty years the way he criticized the policy and told how things ought to be run . At first Julia Cloud was greatly distressed by it all , thinking that they surely had made a mistake in their selection of a college , but it gradually dawned upon her that this was a sort of superior attitude maintained by upper-class men toward all institutions of learning , particularly those in which they happened to be studying , that it was really only an indication of growing developing minds keen to see mistakes and trying to think out remedies , and as yet inexperienced enough to think they could remedy the whole sick world . The opening days of college were turbulent days for Julia Cloud .