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at new buildings, improvements in old buildings, etc. Now we thought of everything that could at all account f01"the change; but we found the conditions about the same this year as heretofore; and the only "new circumat ance ' 'we could think of was the fact that we were Seniors. Hence the conclusion, and the dignity, too. The fact, too, that the usual 1111111berof professors in Senior Hall is doubled this year goes to intensify our feeling of dignity. To think that so many professors would so willingly live with 11S gives us not only dignity but even couccit=in the fact that we are able to entertain them so well, especially at night. So after getting our backs at the proper angle with the ground, our heads elevated, our arms with proper swing, and adjusting ourselves to some of the local coucli- tions, we were ready to appear as the distinguished men of the college. Dignity, then, is one of the chief characteristics of the Senior host. But another 011e is the intense longing for that which is higher and better-than is found in the college dining-room. That same longing which has always been prominent in the lives of "The Century Class," still continues to manifest itself in their actions. That clever person who says we can not air," \? ", "live is so on rare, and especially love, when be- it on cause it is in most cases too weak, can easily find some means of satisfying his natural longing. This was f01111c1in the many" feasts" which have all along been par-ticipated in by us. While we remain the + 60-'-
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