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brick building well equipped for the development of weak legs and arms; indeed, its smooth floor sees, though the observation must be close, the development of grace in the esthetic dancing classes held every week. In the basement are the showers and a swimming pool on the subject of whose charms the countless swimming fiends can bore their friends for hours. On the opposite side of the graveled path the tennis courts extend down to the athletic field, where the Thanksgiving basket-ball match is played and where public interest turns eagerly on field day. Both under the fence around this field and from the graveled walk the paths are well worn that lead to a building which, although it may not be recognized in a classic survey of the college grounds, looms too large in the student’s topography to be passed without a word. This is Whileaway Inn, better known as Miss Ellis’s, where dishes are served that rival mother’s and bills sent home that shrivel father. Following the boardwalk from Miss Ellis’s around the side of New Hall brings the front campus in view again, a broad green expanse broken by winding walks, a picturesque summer-house and the astronomical observ- atory. In the spring it glows with flowers, making on the first day of May a perfect bower for the Queen and her maids. In this setting moves the life of the institution. The term college life is a most misused one, calling up, as it does, in the mind of some only pictures of girls in gay-colored kimonos cooking fudge, or groups Life of the in lettered sweaters getting harmony on “Mandalay. Institution. What a small part such scenes play in the real life! The thought often occurs that college life is a whole exist- ence in miniature ; in the four years there is a youth, a prime, an end. The freshman year is full of excitement and opportunities, the sophomore and junior years the realization of opportunities grasped, the senior year a time of looking back in retrospect, conning the mistakes and counting the gain while grasping a vision of the new fields presently to be entered. As has often been said, college is no preparation for life; it is life itself. There is a steady, normal current of daily existence that underlies all the pleasures and excitement of college, so well ordered as to make possible the accom- plishment of twice as much as in a home day. The words “atmosphere and 15
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“spirit’’ are hackneyed by frequent occurrence in the parlance of college lec- turers, hut they must he used here to speak of our atmosphere of study. For we have such an atmosphere in spite of the criticism sometimes given even by the friends of the college of a certain “high school spirit which, in this application, means an unordered life holding study secondary to the excite- ment the moment offers. If this were true, Randolph-Macon would not have grown so; Phi Beta Kappa has accepted our standard of scholarship and this year will see a chapter in- stalled here. There is a criti- cism, too, of our lack of literary atmosphere which is indeed better founded, for the virtues of youth that our college possesses, responsive- ness, energy, enthusiasm, are accompanied by a youthful tendency to leave unappreci- ated the golden storehouse of literature and thought open to us more widely now per- haps than it will be again in a lifetime. The steady routine just mentioned has little to fear here from the “evils of Athleticism, so often the case in men ' s colleges. Not that there is any lack of enthusiasm over basket-ball or field day; a spectator at Athletics. our Thanksgiving game sees a perfect example of a tense mob when a veil coming from six hundred throats seems to come from one, but the season lasts only through November, and our basket-ball heroines have to reinforce their prowess with skill in other things to keep their laurels fresh all year. We have no intercollegiate athletics; the contests are between the four classes, and class spirit, always high, runs then to its zenith. This fall a new contestant entered the field and threw down the challenging gauntlet, the faculty squad, the members of which demonstrated remarkable activity if but little action. Their advance was extraordinary, they challenged first the Junior Squad, and immediately afterward the all-star 16
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