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home, the other members of the Association were not idle. They turn- 

 ed out in full strength, and resolutely set about digging the holes in 

 which the new-comers were to be set. This was no child's play. As 

 so many former attempts to rear trees upon the campus had failed, it 

 was determined to make sure work of it this time. Accordingly the 

 holes were made about two feet and an half deep and of equ^l breadth. 

 They were then fdled up with virgin soil and rich mould, upon which 

 the young trees, properly prepared, were set, and covered to the depth 

 of about nine inches. The digging of each of these holes was no light 

 job, but required at least half an hour's steady labor from four or five 

 of the ardent laborers, who relieved each other so as to make the work 

 as light as possible, and ensure the greatest expedition. 



Simultaneous with this, various other operations were going on in 

 the campus. A part of it which had been denuded of its soil at the 

 time of building the College, and which had ever since presented a faint 

 type of the "-Great Sahara," scarcely a blade of grass growing upon it, 

 was ploughed up and enriched, so as to give a fair promise of yielding 

 a rich sward of grass. Our Professor of Mathematics was called in to 

 act as a civil engineer, for the purpose of laying out all sorts of roads 

 and walks, circles and curves and ellipses cutting each other in every 

 direction, and making to the uninitiated a perfect labyrinth, of which, 

 when completed, we hope to present our readers with a faithful diagram. 

 At the same time, the chairman of the Floral committee, a practical 

 gardener from Germany, was busy in his department. Flower-beds 

 were thrown up along each side of the Via Benedicta, and in various 

 other appropriate positions, shrubbery was planted, and the ground pre- 

 pared for flowers. Thus, already, as if by magic, (industry and energy 

 are a most potent magic,) we have several fine avenues of promising 

 young trees, and the prospect of blooming flowers and abundant foliage, 

 whenever summer opens upon us. Arbors also are to stand embosomed 

 in vines and foliage. 



In the midst of all these labors, it was discovered that the fencing 

 was not sufficiently ornamental for the lawn which it was to enclose. 

 It was, therefore, forthwith resolved to remove it, and substitute for it 

 such as corresponded to the new order of things. The same hands 

 which had so successfully wielded the mattock and the shovel, and held 

 the plough, now seized the saw and hammer, and gave ocular demon- 

 stration that they had not forgotten, or were very apt in acquiring the 

 art of the mechanic as well as that of the farmer. Several hundred feet 

 of elegant and substantial fence now stand as a monument of the stu- 

 dent's untiring energy. 



