| Show THE COLLEGE GRIND B work economizes Econom luc and becomes become ft a recluse the harvard grind is a term used as often in the college circles as any surname surna me says the boston herald the them name nanie originated from the old custom men had of getting down and working K hard a few days be before f ore examination finally when a fellow was known to keep up this grinding process through out the term he soon went under the caption of grind the name has now become an established term in harvard life and the visitor is now shown tl the e grinds headquarters tife the 1 grinds table in our dining hall and the grinds haunts to see him bim in his true light the grind must be hunted bouvat out at different times of the year I 1 traced up one of these fellows a year ago in the dead of winter he lived in an upstairs room eight by eight feet no stove in the room no heating apparatus of any kind for in fact there was not room for any a small single bed across ono one side a bureau across the other and a little table under the one window in the narrow aisle in the center there was room but for one chair A light carpet on the floor a lookingglass looking glass set in the bureau top and abne one or two wall decorations completed the furnishings of the room it was totally wanting in an all those little artistic designs so I characteristic act of the harvard room no fine art lectures practiced as prescribed there by prof norton no trace of lirio brio a brae and crimson deco 1 ration in short it was a sort bort of aeji dent in which a man could eat and sl sleep ef and have his being to be sure this was not an attractive lodging but as the occupant informed me he could study there and the room cost him only two dollars per week when I 1 ventured the suggestion that it must be very risky living there without afire a fire in the dead of winter he said he usually worked in one of the university private libraries during the day and until ten at night upon seeing a small oil in one corner I 1 made a great venture upon its use and found that this student was doing his own cooking I 1 also learned that his laundry bills were a minimum in short that he was living on one dollar and fifteen cents centa per week according to his own figures here is a rare case but one not nearly as rare rara as might be expected at first ent thought because men are students in a unive university does not malce make all of them alpiro aspiro to anything socially here is an actual case where a man turned himself into a recluse did his own cool cooking cing and washing and spent every minute grinding over books statistics disprove the P hobort amors that they are disappearing Disappear inc according to some facts and figures presented by henry gannett in a recent issue in the abo new york sun there is today to day nearly if not quite as great an area of woodland in the united states as when the white man set t foot on our shore there are ara not so eo many square miles of merchantable timber now as then but the territory occupied by growing trees la is about as extensive as it was four hundred years ago and these trees win will in time grow to i a size suitable for the production of lumber some of mr gannetta Gan statements are quite inconsistent with the general belief that american forests are giving out he says cays for instance that only about two hundred and seventy thousand square miles or less than one tenth the area of the e country 0 n try is artificially cl eared cleared land wh while i lue to offset this loss there has in recent years been great extension of wooded laud land in the tha prairie states as aa won well as in some of the natural tree growing states A table Is pu published bUshed showing the total area and the wooded area of each tate state the figures ures having been obtained from reports depoi ts of the cen sua and agricultural departments from official surveys and in a few fe cases 9 from careful ca re jul estimates A As a grand g nd result it is shown that the wooded area in the united states excluding alaska Js is newly nearly one million one hundred end and thirteen thousand square squam miles |
