of the sward and when we consider that they are
worn simply to save a small number of students
from walking a few extra rods in a day, we
think it time to call a halt to such a practice. The
few men who make a habit of forming those paths
should wake up to a feeling of pride in keeping
the beauty of our campus unmarred and to a sense
of the injustice to their fellow students of their
spoiling, by their laziness, what is a lux'.n'y to be
enjoyed by all.
OUR Senior dances are affairs which it is the
privilege of nearly every man in college to
attend. They are given annually by the
Senior class at considerable expense of time and
money, not for the benefit and enjoyment of the
class alone but for the whole body of the students.
And yet do the College men patronize them ?
At the recent assembly there were present, as the
statistics taken by the committee show, outside
of the senior class but seventeen college men,—
four juniors, seven sophomores, three freshmen and
three preps.
Does this speak well for the interest which the
students take, in what arc the only really enjoyable
social gatherings that all have the privilege of at
tending, and which it should be a matter of col
lege pride to make a success ?
Dces it look well for our friends from a distance
to come here from a distance to our college hops
tuld find in attendance about thirty students out of
two hundred and forty? Surely not.
Wake up as individuals, wake up as classes, and
take some action toward making a social and fi
nancial success of what arc given for your own en
joyment.
THE foot-ball season for the year of '9l is
practically over and all that remains to be
played yet are a few class games. Now
will be the time for the enemies of our game to cry:
"These boys should have been putting this time
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poun their studies instead of wasting it upon what
will never do them any good." But is this so?
Will the training which we have gone through, the
victories which we have won, the lessons of defeat
which we have experienced, will they never be of
use to us in after life? We think that they will.
Men who have played foot ball in by-gone years
tell us that on the foot-ball field they had experi
ences which proved invaluable to them in the
scrimmage in after life. This testimony alone
should be sufficient for, us. We knol . v that our
training has not been in vain and that we are bet
ter fitted to battle with the world, for having re
ceived a few bumps and bruises on the foot-ball
field.
THE lack of entertainments this term has been
conspicuous. We have not had a lecture,
or even a concert. We had hoped that after
the course of lectures which was instituted last
year that this would be a precedent for the estab •
lishment of a series of this kind of pleasant instruc
tion hereafter. The attendance at these volun
tary exercises has always been such as to
warrant their continuation anal the amount of
real benefit which is always derived from them
gives assurance that the attendance will not be di
minished in the future. Next term we hope that
besides having a regular course of lectures ar
_ranged by the faculty we shall be able to get a few
prominent lecturers from some good bureau.
Why would it not be a good thing for the Athletic
Association to have a change from what it gener
ally gives us ? It may perhaps cost a little more
to get a quartette of singers or a banjo club but
the increased attendance would certainly be suf
ficient to more than pay for the change.
In the past when there was a lecture for
the benefit of the Athletic Association there
never was the attendance that should have
been at such an entertainment. Instead
of striving to see who would not go,
there should be a competition among the clif-
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