The effect of this demonstration was interesting.  The donor who had tended towards the hockey rink, instead transferred his $100,000 to the book purchase fund.  He said he guessed the old place needed real books more than it needed artificial ice.  Others followed his example according to their ability.

The student who was satisfied with our bath robe faculty meeting, came back from the library equally pleased.  He had not compared his bibliography with the catalogue, but a brief general inspection had convinced him that there were already more books in the library than anybody could read.  His intention held firm to give his Alma Mater a tower higher than any university tower on record and containing a chime of bells that periodically played the college song.  The tower was naturally to bear his name, which was also his dear mother’s.

A Suggestion Regarding Vacations

Why wouldn’t it be well for the country colleges to shorten their summer vacations, and lengthen their winter ones?  Then urban students would not, for so long a period in summer, be put to their trumps to find out what to do with themselves; and, what is more important, in winter both faculty and students would have increased opportunity for metropolitan experience.  In the summer vacations, the cities are empty of music, drama, and most else of what makes them distinctively worth while.  Intellectually, the country needs the city at least as much as, morally, the city needs the country.

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Simplified Spelling

After receiving, in answer to the invitation in our first number, a few bitter objections to simplified spelling, we have felt like apologizing each time we approached the subject.  Perhaps the best apology we can make is that apparently the majority of our readers are interested in it.  Therefore we hope that the others will tolerate as equably as they can, the devotion of a little space to it in the interest of the majority.  Perhaps the objectors may ultimately be able to settle the difficulty as we and our house have settled another unconquerable nuisance—­the dandelions on our lawns—­:  we have concluded to like them.