Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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REED COLLEGE ANNUALi' 1915 l143l HOLIDAYS AMPUS DAY is one day of all the year when Reed C College acts a unit, if it never does at any other T3 time. It is a day when the whole community, face ulty and students, ar doing the same thing at the Kg same time and doing it because they want to. It is a day when there ar no differences of purpose or 1nterest. Good humor and zeal for work ar universal quali- ties. The immediate purpose of this day is the spring cleaning of the campus. The weeds in the lawn hav kept a large force busy every year, and from present appearance wil furnish work for many more years. The first Campus Day the old fences and a dilapidated chicken-house wer torn down and burnd, two detl trees wer cut down, and a number of logs and stumps wer de- stroyd. An old springhouse was also carried bodily some dis tance t0 the lake and was there enlarged and made into a boat- house; a landing was bilt; and the snags in the lake wer markt. A plank hoor for spectators was laid on both sides of the old tennis courts; brush, stumps, and logs hav been Cleard out of the ravine each year, paths cut along the lake, and about the campus, and the athletic field put in shape for spring work. The chief results of this years Campus Day hav been the cleaning-out of the swimming pool, the planting of fruit trees A t: l Lu ,7 ..v--.x.: .,. , , . v ..; T47h-e; ,, - . .t.'.;.rr;. .. and shrubs, and the cleaning of the ball diamond. The net result of each Campus Day has been to giv the campus an air of tonsorial felicity. The side issues of the day ar no les important. The bigr dinner at noon is attackt just as vigorusly as the weeds ar in the morning; and the entertainment in the evening furnishes an outlet for surplus enthusiasm accumulated during the day. An especially attractiv benefit vaudeville sho given by the dor- mitory women was the feature of entertainment this year. The practical value of Campus Day to the college is not a small item. Several hundred dollars ar saved yearly by work which would otherwise be done by hired laborers. The greatest benefit, however, is to be found neither in the improved condi- tion of the campus, nor in the mony saved, but in the feeling of group unity and the spirit of the occasion which make it possi- ble for diverse opinion and interest to be united in a com- 111011 cause. RIVER DAY Among the customs of the college which wer instituted by the first clas is the delightful one of taking time off towards the end of the spring semester and devoting it to an all-day

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