tutions, but when the average student is at home on vacation his studies are farthest from his mind and he talks of what his base ball team did in the spring and what his foot ball team is going to do in the fall. If he is ashamed of the weakness of either he keeps quiet and secretly wishes he were a student at the institu tion whose rosy athletic prospects are being so loudly exploited by some enthusiast in the crowd. It is in just such ways that boys talk and talk is what does it all. The trouble is that there is not enough talk about The Penn sylvania State College and there won't be until something is done to encourage more of it. The athletic medium is undoubtedly the best one to-day and it has the advantage of being cheap. All that needs be done is to recognize what athletics might do for the institution, encourage them accordingly, by giving every training facility needed and then to reap the benefit brought about by a large student body which will remove the only weak point we have had for years. WHOSE FAULT WAS IT ? T"fall that I left home to attend college I was deeply in fatuated with a girl whom I had known since early child hood, but my love was quite, if not entirely, unrequited and I went to my student life with a heaviness of heart that was not superinduced by the pranks of the harassing sophomores. At my first holiday home-coming, when I met her at the va rious functions and receptions, where her radiant beauty shone so brilliantly, she treated me so graciously that I became. more deeply in love than ever. I went back to my college duties highly elated but was soon in the depths of despair for she had been sent to Colorado to regain her health. How could I, a stu dent, ask a girl, whom I so devoutly loved, to marry me when I Guo. R. Munic, '9O, President of Alumni Ass' n. ot .4 ot
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