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we hope we have gained friends during the past 

 year, as well as kept those we had. Whatever feel- 

 ing remained after the organization last spring is, 

 I think, in many cases, dying away, and it is gen- 

 erally recognized that the alliance with Harvard 

 is close enough for all practical purposes. The stu- 

 dents who have come up for the entrance examina- 

 tions these past three days, are more in number 

 than ever before, and most of the schools send up 

 larger classes; the girls look very nice and I don't 

 believe that we shall have a larger freshman class 

 than we can manage. That is our present solicitude; 

 for this year we had no room at all to spare, and 

 next year we shall have not quite enough. ... I think 

 we must make up our minds now as to our future 

 policy with regard to staying where we are (this 

 we should certainly do for years to come), or look- 

 ing to some other site for the College of fifty years 

 hence. In this is involved (to my thinking) the ques- 

 tion of some other form of lodging the students who 

 come from a distance. The present scheme answers 

 for some, but not for all; if we are to have any num- 

 ber of students from the Middle and Western States, 

 or from that part of New England which feels the 

 influence of New York, we must have some mode 

 of living that is at once less expensive and better 

 suited to their wishes and habits. As it is, there is a 

 danger of our becoming simply a ** local college," 

 and that would be a great waste of our opportunities; 

 for there is no denying the fact that we do offer pre- 

 eminent advantages in the way of instruction. But 



