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 one's family by one's conduct and character when away from them. A few years ago I rode on a street car from Cambridge to Boston with a young fellow, crude and half intoxicated, who was proclaiming loudly and persistently the merits of the west and the western university from which he had come. Even the placid New Englander looked up from the volume of Emerson in which he was absorbed and showed his disgust of the bad taste of this western rustic. I sank unobtrusively into a corner not wanting to speak lest I reveal by my dialect the locality of my birth, and thankful that my educational ancestry was not the same is his; and yet he thought he was showing strong college spirit.

College spirit gives one pride in the institution of which he is or has been a member. I knew a man once who came from a small country town in central Illinois. Nothing could have persuaded him that the churches, and the high school, and the water works, and the lighting system, and the city hall, and the skating rink in his town were not the most perfectly planned and magnificently executed of any in the country. In his mind the city library was the equal of the congressional library of Washington, and the First Presbyterian Church was the rival of St. Peter's. He had loyalty to his native village; he knew what it means to have spirit. In a similar though perhaps