cil; they are called into constant and frank consultation by the college literary, religious, dramatic, and other organizations. In fact, here again critics assert that this tendency toward familiar relationship is carried too far. But these things are illustrative of the communal interest that welds the campus society into one-due, not to any set purpose, but to the conditions of residence, and the daily associations and interlockings of a life led within more or less restricted bounds.

With the senior parade on the afternoon of St. Patrick's Day, spring is formally ushered in. This parade, which has no reason for existence and like poler's recess " is only one of the interesting contrasts between the serious and the frivolous elements of campus existence, has come to be an annual affair, and with its motley array of floats and transparencies is the opportunity for skits and satires on current events, in and out of the college world. It has taken the place of the senior parade at the freshman-sophomore baseball game. Set in the country as Princeton is, the spring term necessarily is the pleasantest. Long before Potter's Woods show green or the poplars marking the canal tow-path come to life and color again, the crews get out on Lake Carnegie. Soon canoes appear from the old boathouse on the canal and explore the portages leading to the upper reaches of Stony Brook and the Millstone. The campus is surveyed once more by the civil engineering squads who pray aloud for the warm sunny afternoons on which they may loiter in the soft meadows of Laughlin Field and Olden Farm. The soccer team comes out of winter quarters; cross-country runners are to be seen threading their way along the roads and through the fields around Princeton, the Caledonian games, dual track and tennis meets, interscholastic meets, and preparation

for the intercollegiates keep University Field occupied every afternoon. Besides the forty or fifty minor nines playing off all sorts of schedules, there is varsity baseball every Wednesday and Saturday. The University is not suffering from any athletic craze; it is simply recognized that some form of exercise other than walking to a meal and back is a good thing and is also good fun, especially as it can be topped off with a plunge in Brokaw tank, or with a shower in one's own dormitory. Intramural athletic competitions, arranged by a students' committee and under the general supervision of the Department of Hygiene and Physical Education, are systematizing this daily outdoor life and giving it direction and purpose, with the result that there is far less of the oldtime "loafing," and far more of a vigorous healthy physical activity, the counterpart of the newer attitude toward strictly scholastic duties.

When the spring evenings have grown warm the seniors sing on the steps of Nassau Hall, the audience extending in a wide semicircle under the trees. Senior singing originally was not supposed to be for the delectation of the general public-if the public loitered to listen that was the public's privilege. Applause was frowned upon. Nowadays there is less spontaneity, and for some time before the warm evenings come the singing is rehearsed in Murray-Dodge, that ever-willing auditorium of worthy causes. By the time the class has been drilled into some sort of harmonious effort, the college carpenters have produced a new set of campus benches which are kept in serried ranks at the foot of the steps for senior use. The scene at senior singing is a haunting one. It appears to depend for its universal appeal on the mood of the hour, the mystery of the massive silent building against which it is set, the dimness of the light

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under the trees beneath which the semicircle gathers. The audience is felt rather than seen and it is only when everyone rises at "Old Nassau " and a forest of waving hands and hats marks the beat of the chorus that one realizes how large that audience is.

On

On crowded commencement evenings, which are by no means the most typical, the street is lined with automobiles, the trees are festooned with Chinese lanterns. and the campus is packed with humanity. Commencement festivities begin with the Yale baseball game, which, thanks to the returning classes, has become a riot of bands and costumes and color. Class reunions in the modern sense of the word date from 1898, and the commencement costuming of the younger classes is an "" old custom of still more recent introduction. the morning of commencement Sunday the baccalaureate sermon is preached in Alexander Hall to the graduating class by the president of the University. In the afternoon, returning classes hold their memorial services in Marquand Chapel, and in the evening the annual meeting of the Philadelphian Society takes place. Monday is Class Day. The Class Poem and Oration are listened to in Alexander Hall; the Ivy Oration is delivered on the steps of Nassau Hall and the class ivy is planted. At noon the annual alumni meetings of the Cliosophic and American Whig Societies are held, and the afternoon is given over to the Cannon Exercises, a rite dating back over half a century and staged in an amphitheater temporarily erected around the big cannon. The ceremony ends with the shower of churchwarden class pipes on the cannon. The next day is Commencement Day, when the exercises in Alexander Hall begin with the Latin Salutatory, one of the two survivors of the formidable list of orations which used to grace commencement pro

grammes and be the joy of the audience and the pride of fond parents. In these unregenerate days printed copies of the Latin Salutatory are distributed to the audience, with the places clearly marked where applause should properly occur. Announcements of prizes are then made, the degrees are conferred, and after the Valedictory-the other surviving oration-the programme ends with "Old Nassau," the audience remaining standing while the academic procession marches out. Then comes the Alumni Luncheon in the gymnasium, with speeches by representatives of the ten-year classes, followed later in the afternoon by the annual reception at Prospect. The melodramatic loving-cup exercises in front of Nassau Hall, after senior singing that night, bring the week to a close. The seniors formally hand the steps over to the juniors and file off to their class supper; and the night ends with a bonfire of the senior singing benches. The next day witnesses the exodus.

And if, in conclusion, one asks what it is that men carry away from their brief life together here, the answer might be summed up in one word, imagination. The history and traditions of the place, the freedom and frankness of its life and customs, the unutilitarian kind and method of its learning, and, not least, the natural beauty of its environment-these, if men have not been too blind to see, or too dull to understand, subtly take and keep possession of the imagination, are a stimulus to finer things, energize life into service, and withal in the pauses of the work-a-day world send men's thoughts and homage casting back to Nassau Hall and the old scenes.

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CHARTER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 1

GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc., to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting

WHEREAS sundry of our loving subjects, well-disposed and public-spirited persons, have lately, by their humble petition, presented to our trusty and well-beloved Jonathan Belcher, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief of our province of New Jersey in America, represented the great necessity of coming into some method for encouraging and promoting a learned education of our youth in New Jersey, and have expressed their earnest desire that a college may be erected in our said province of New Jersey in America, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said province and others, wherein youth may be instructed in the learned languages, and in the liberal arts and sciences. AND WHEREAS by the fundamental concessions made at the first settlement of New Jersey by the Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret, then proprietors thereof, and granted under their hands and the seal of the said province, bearing date the tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty-four, it was, among other things, conceded and agreed, that no freeman, within the said province of New Jersey, should at any time be molested, punished, disquieted or called in question, for any difference in opinion or practice in matters of religious concernment, who do not actually disturb the civil peace of the said province; but that all and every such person or persons might, from time to time, and at all times thereafter, freely and fully have and enjoy his and their judgments and consciences, in matters of religion, throughout the said province, they behaving 1 Corporate title changed to The Trustees of Princeton University," October 22, 1896.

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