eagerly add to her vocabulary all the college slang
which greets her freshman ears, or does she select
choice bits and leave the rest? Does she even speak
occasionally in such ordinary language that her
friends at home comprehend her meaning? If so,
she is revealing her character. Does she walk to a
concert on a rainy night in a thin dress, low neck
and a light opera cape, or does she now and then
dress in accordance with the weather ? In this, too,
she is revealing character. Doees she indulge ex
travagantly in that peculiar article of college diet,
fudge, or is she at times mindful of the olcl Greek
maxim, ‘Nothing in excess?’ Herein is some part of
her character shown. Does she, finally,—and this
is the subtlest danger she has to fight,—allow her
mind to become so engrossed in learning and the
desire to learn, her heart so absorbed with ambition
and the longing to achieve, that her mental and
spiritual life is permanently narrowed; or does she,
in the midst of college life and interests, keep her
mind open to perceive the good in other fields of
human endeavor and activity, and her heart large to
sympathize with experiences outside her sphere?
Here, truly, is her character laid bare.”
—The Dartmouth magazine for October contains a very
article, entitled “The College Just After the Civil War.”
scarcity of .such articles as this makes it doubly interesting ai
as instructive. Following is an extract from the same:.
“Required mathematics ended with Sophomore
year. The occasion was still celebrated by a solemn
function. Formerly, at this stage in the course,
‘mathematics’ had been burned. We buried him. In
procession, at night, to dirge music, copies of our
mathematical books were borne in a small black
coffin to the ravine in. the college park where class
day exercises are held—then marked by the up
right posts pf an ancient horizontal bar, once used
for outdoor gymnastics, and known in -our'time as
The ‘Freshman Gallows’—there the grave was dug
and the interment made, with suitable addresses.
Afterwards, we dug up the remains—that the