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then those who can run. jump, vault, etc., come attention. team; the record of the scores of both games has been carefully misplaced. The all-star team mentioned above is the flower of all four teams, since the mem- bers are chosen on account of both individual and team work. After Thanksgiving, athletics lie dormant — except for gymnasium classes — un- til the spring term, when en- thusiasm and class rivalry run high again on field day ; into a large share of popular Every phase of college life at Randolph-Macon condenses itself into an organization; whether, as some assert, the result is mechanical over-organi- zation, it is not the purpose of this article to argue. I he Young Organizci- Women’s Christian Association makes it her care that students tions. do not care- lessly relegate their religious life to a low place among their interests. Through this organization world-wide causes of char- ity, big relief movements, and the mission field find a voice to reach the student body ; in its committees the students find a field of un- selfish activity. That it is only a spoke in a big ma- chine and consequently life- less and mechanical is the 17
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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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