censure the Freshmen, the conduct of their antagonists is little less to be condemned. If they had simply left the '93 flag go unnoticed until Monday, we think that ere they would have had time to tear it down the Freshmen would have hauled it down in shame. Though it will be a day when class spirit will have died out of American colleges we certainly cannot but censure an action which is a dis credit to the classes of which our institution has had reason to feel proud. rfHE manner in which the chapel bell is rung some mornings is, to say the least, decidedly aggravating. At present the bell is very rarely rung for a period longer than about a minute and a-half. If the students roomed and took their meals in the main building this would be ample time, but, as is the case, many of the students rooming and all of them boarding at a considerable dis tance from the college buildings, the present time of ringing the bell is scarcely half its proper length. It is impossible to keep col lege time, as any one knows who has attempted it, no matter how costly and complex the chronometer used, and for a student to leave his boarding place, as he supposes, in good time and then hears the chapel bell ringing and realizes he must either be late to or miss chapel entirely unless he is capable of putting on a splendid burst of speed that would rival the records of Maud S, or Jay-Eye-See, is extremely discomforting, to put it in a very mild form. A large number of our sister institu tions, whose average boarding house is no farther distant than some of ours, ring their chapel bells five minutes and even longer. Let us have at least four or five minutes of THE FREE LANCE. chapel bell ringing, which, by being slow and regular a great part of the time, would not prove exhaustive to the ringer, and besides would give the needed time for most students to 16ave their boarding places and arrive promptly at chapel: AT last ! is the most used exclamation at the institution just now. What does it mean ? The trustees after due and deliberate consideration have ".at last" granted the re quest of the students and we are now allowed to give hops, at least three times a year. This concession may not appear to outsiders to be a cause for much joy but we know that with us it is. Since we will now be able to show our friends that in the recluse life we lead here we have not forgotten the requirements of social customs. THE twelve hUndred dollars worth of new apparatus for the gymnasium arrived last week, and will be put in place within a few days. Now after the "Sargent" system is put in operation how long is it going to last ? How long will our students take care of an equipment which is acknowledged by authorities to be the best in use in modern gymnasiums ? Our Armory j,is a building of which we can all feel proud, and the appli• ances that are now being placed in it are the best that can be had, but the only way in which they can be kept in order, is for each and all of us to resolve that we will use judi ciously the advantages entended to us. The reckless disposition shown by some of our men in their use of different things about college must be curbed, no matter how severe the means by which it is attained, because'
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