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Ever since the Silver Bay Conferences have been held it has been custom to recruit undergraduates by describing the opportunities for recreation which the conferences offer. The ten days spent there, one was almost led to believe, would be as enjoyable as if passed in the gayest summer resort. Although it is true that conferences as they are now conducted are extremely enjoyable--there seems to be a danger that in an effort to get men to attend, this aspect of the conference may be over-emphasized...
...Class Boat Races are scheduled for this afternoon. Time was when this event was the occasion of the gayest scene of the year along the Boston river front; in those days each class hired some kind of a craft which was suitably decorated, on which the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Though the races are today shorn of some of their external glory their real value remains. They are still a part of the broadening tendency toward general athletics...
...miraculous transformation will take place in his habits after he has "settled down to work." He looks on college as a pleasant interlude between the seclusion of his schooldays and the prosaic realities of a business world. He hears too frequently that his undergraduate years are to be the gayest and freest of his life, and he does not hesitate to devote them to the pursuit of pleasure. This undergraduate is, fortunately, one of a rather small type, and his ideas of fun are frequently strangely perverted. In consequence, he accustoms himself to much that as a graduate he intends...
...should wear caps and gowns. This matter has given much worry to previous committees, and I know that Arthur R. Crandell '92, Frank W. Hallowell '93, and Russell B. Beals '94, chairmen of the respective Class Day Committees, and all graduates who wish to see this annual celebration the gayest and jolliest college holiday in America will heartily endorse all that I have said about the desirability of having every man in the lock-step line about the tree...
...living a new life, for graduates, old and young, came pouring in from every quarter. Undergraduate and alumnus vied with each other in showing their appreciation of the great event, and relieved from their daily routine, spent the greater part of the day in rest and quiet. The gayest-colored bunting displayed from the different buildings and houses outside the college shows that all Cambridge takes the keenest interest in the welfare of the university...