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HAD a talk during examination time with a young fellow who was to receive his bachelor's degree, but who wished to be excused from attendance upon the exercises of Commencement.

"I don't care anything for your fool exercises," he said. "There's a lot of things I'd rather do than go through that sort of red tape."

"Have you no sentiment for the University?" I asked.

"No," he answered. "I came here for a degree, and now that I have earned it, I think I am entitled to it without any further foolishness."

His is not an uncommon view point. He had come from another college. He had been at the University during his senior year only, and there was no romance or sen-