eight o'clock Friday evening
`` I 'm so happy over it I could hurrah , '' declared Grace jubilantly . `` I knew Father would not refuse us , '' smiled Eleanor . `` Now had n't we better hurry home and make up the rest of the programme ? '' By eight o'clock Friday evening every available foot of space in Music Hall was crowded with Overton students . The front rows of the hall had been reserved for the faculty , who were quite in sympathy with the idea of the new club . In order to obtain permission to use this hall , Grace had gone to the dean with the story of the organization of Semper Fidelis and its purpose . The dean had sympathized heartily with the movement , and had at once laid the matter before the president of the college , who willingly gave the desired permission .