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while the Cornell campus would be ruined by a 

 rigid formality. 



Walks and drives about university grounds are 

 often laid out in ludicrous fashion. With short 

 intervals between classes, it is essential that stu- 

 dents have access to the buildings by the most di- 

 rect routes, and it is often amusing to find how 

 studiously these routes appear to have been 

 avoided by the walks in the majority of cases. 

 Those who have been so careless as to lay out walks 

 in a wandering " artistic" way, through a total 

 misapprehension of the laws of beauty, take refuge 

 in plastering " Keep-off -the-grass" signs about 

 the campus. Of course they are cheerfully disre- 

 garded by the students, who realize that in this 

 case at least their time is valuable, and conse- 

 quently wear new paths along more sensible lines. 

 Sometimes the authorities are astute enough to 

 perceive the justice of the implied criticism, and 

 construct paths along lines really necessary for 

 convenient circulation. The result is always more 

 pleasing than the tortuous scheme that existed be- 

 fore. 



Another point to be observed in constructing 

 walks on college campuses is the number of stu- 

 dents who are to use them, and the amount of traf- 



