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same in this particular, we have apparently changed in one respect. vVe have become expert at gambling. The "game of lottery" that is always being played in the din- ing-room - handing one's • plate up and getting a .•~...,. chicken wing by chance- t!()'" gives us opportunity to ~.[1 play our hand; but, sad to ~~.. , say. 'VI" always lose. : A still ~reater change is ';:~. now noticed by us, a ~ change which \\;1" didn't " ~~ effect, however, but one '.'-:-,'::-:-~.',-::~/ =''. ft",'; \V hie h affects us. This ,\ , might be mentioned to ,-,:(.t'- ;-;::: show the difficulty some. s;~....s C{H)O~~ times of adjusting ourselves to changes. Always before this year we had been led to think that one would be can. sidcred present if he were in the class-room whether he failed in the reci,tation or not. But 110W a change is here. Now absence in mind {which, according to the Faculty, is a failure in a recitation) is considered absence in body; and so utter-ly confused were wc at the change that we tried to convince the teachers that when we were absent in body, but knew the lessons, we ought to be considered present and given credit for the recitation, since it all depended on the mind. But we SOOI1 round [that this was aile law that wouldn't work both ways. Our last year at college has indeed been brightened by many joyous events, and prominent among which is the Junior Banquet. This was an occasion in which the joyous propensity and civil conduct of the upper class men found their highest expression. The banquet was extremely en- joyable, not merely for the refined taste and most willing _,.61 .,_