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 still another case of spirit. If after an athletic victory a crowd of students smashes into an opera house, and leaves the properties in splinters, throws a street car off the track, after having knocked out the windows to improve the ventilation, or paints exaggerated class numerals in the most public and sacred places, these are simply quite innocent methods of showing college spirit. And the thing about it all hardest to understand is that the young fellows who offer this excuse as an explanation of their depredations do so with the utmost seriousness, and seemingly with perfect confidence that it will be taken by intelligent, sensible people as a legitimate reason for making night hideous and the day to be dreaded.

It is true that most of the people with whom I have discussed the subject of college spirit have been young people in college whose judgments have not been fully developed, and who have been filled with a youthful enthusiasm which may sometimes have overbalanced their more deliberate conclusions, but not all the people who seem to hold such opinions as I have suggested are young. Some of them are sedate heads of families, and otherwise sensible business men near whom I may have sat at an athletic game, or whose tales of college escapades I may have listened to at a class reunion. Most of the evidences of so-called college spirit which the young fellow not yet out of high