Show STUDENT LIFE 110 For often peculiarly appropriate instance the study of two engineering students one a mining engineer is hung with large excellent photographs of different pieces of machinery and feats of engineering skill while on the mantel-piec- e isja display ot ore and mineralogical This typical students sjx’cimens room with its rich dark green walls its crimson “Harvard’ haulier alxve the massive grate which radiates warmth and good cheer its window-serunning the entire width of the room and heaped with inviting cushions reveals a picture of studious application when the occupants each at his desk with its student’s lamp are green-shade- d deep in ponderous tomes hut adapts itself equally well to scenes of convivial revelrv which almost invite a visitation from the proctor The private dormitories offer the most luxurious quarters to he obtained and are fitted with elevators gymnasiums and swimming-pool- s The dominant note the most salient fact in the lives of the majority of Harvard students is work work! —earnest concentrated diligent and unremitting effort to achieve It is work which shapes the course of a man’s life at Harvard His curriculum is the principal planet and all the other multifarious activities are mere satellites He attends concerts lectures operas if his studies permit he refuses to join a crowd of jolly good fellows spending a quiet ( ?) evening in his friend’s den or to spend a moonlight hour skating on Spy Pond if the examinations are close at at hand and he realizes the need of is due “grinding” or if his thesis — as it on the morrow at 9 a m usually is The main library in Gore Hall and the various department libraries afford excellent opportunities for quiet study and many students prepare their lessons here rather than Besides one has in their rooms here always at hand all needed works of reference — glossaries critical and variorum editions etc Advanced students doing research work are given access to the stack rooms It must not be assumed that the average 1 larvard student does nothing but attend classes and pore over kooks in his room or in the library Such “grinds” are exceptions The members of the faculty recognize the futility of such a course and always advise the students not to register for so many courses that no time is left for social intercourse and general culture and recreations physical and mental are afforded in an overwhelming variety The I Icinenway Gymnasium where most of those who are not members of some athletic society repair for daily exercise and relaxation has locker accommodations for 2500 students hot and cold shower baths and an unexcelled equipment for work in gymnastics An instructor gives regular courses in physical culture but many students take individual work in training and developing Among athletics football holds Xo other sport interfirst place ests so great a number of students |