trying period through which this College has but lately passed, the preparatory depart place of undue prominence in our activities, though far from being the whole thing, except few of Its members. During the past year the Preps had a basket-ball team which was always able to give a good account of itself; they beat the Freshmen, but went down to defeat before the Sopho This spring they will have several men on the College baseball team and good men, too. mores and the Jolly Five. As far as the preparatory school attracts a mature class of students, boys and girls who, either from misfortune or the desire common to young persons of fifteen or thereabouts to go out into the world and get rich quickly, have lost a few years' schooling and find they have outgrown the high school, we deem it a good thing, but when it fills our dormitor}' with a crowd of immature toddlers who ought to be at their mothers' knees we begin to have doubts. We can stand a defeat at basketball or baseball from the former with a very good grace when we have to do so. That is all very well, but lo have a saucy, impudent lot of j^oungsters, so small that one is ashamed to spank them, and to have that same lot always in the way with their noise and would-be toughness by day and early evening and then to be disturbed by their pitiful calls for "Mamma" later in the eveningis very trying to one's patience. What we need is a special dormitory, combining nursery and kindergarten, for this class of Preps, and if this need is not supplied soon, a college student here bids fair to become as rare as boarding-house steak. Owing
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