April 30, 1915 
Tue Acrtation for a State University still con- 
 tinues to grow despite the disadvantages of such a waste 
of good money 
_ Dreamers are keeping up the agitation! 
 chusetts needs is not a new State University, but the 
development of some plan whereby the advantages of 
institutions now successfully operating may be open to all 
educational _ plants. 
What Massa- 
in duplicating 
the youths of the state. President MacLaurin of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come out 
with a statement opposing a state university. His rea- 
soning is clear and irrefutable. After all the arguments 
for a State University are analyzed, the only one that has 
any weight is the probable economy that will be afford- 
ed the student seeking an education. President Mae- 
Laurin rightly says, “the obvious thing to do is to pro- 
vide scholarship for those who cannot afford to pay the 
tuition fees, the amount and extent of these scholarships 
‘being fixed by considerations of public policy.” It is 
time that this agitation for a State University ended and 
a movement for state scholarships available for worthy 
but indigent students begun. 
Tuer Soutm Snore has been looking to the North 
Shore for evidences of the advisability and practicability 
of reforestation and moth prevention, and following the 
example the South Shore residents have begun to reclaim 
forest lands by cooperating with the state reforesting 
commission. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 
The North Shore was forced to do preventive and re- 
forestation work to preserve its woodlands. The South 
Shore is learning a valuable lesson and more of such 
work should be done in the near future. 
Tuere 1s No Dousr in the minds of most people that 
a certain film that has been exposed in Boston contained 
features that were objectionable from many points of 
view. It would be interesting, however, to learn who 
the advertising agents who was clever enough to 
carry his scheme to completion. By the time the film 
has been suppressed or expurgated the “movie” will have 
made an unusual “run” and netted a pretty penny for 
those concerned. 
TuHeERE 1s Mork THAN ONE person who is grateful 
that Mrs. James W. Cauger had a red table cloth to wave 
in time to stp the Newton circuit train from plunging 
into a wreckage of poles and fallen trees. Her heroic 
action is a striking repetition of the interesting episode 
that eyery school child reads in one of the early school 
be deck 
Ir Dorsn’t Matrrer much who started the first 
Sunday School in the City of Boston. The important 
consideration is that they have been successfully main- 
tained and the idea was colossal and has been executed. 
The influence of Sunday Schools has been inestimable. 
Henry ABRAHAMS SAys that men were never re- 
formed by legislation; and this may be a partial truth, 
but this is no reason why there should not be good legis- 
lation passed to help a man reform himself when he 
wishes to. 
Goop-Byzk O1p FurNacr,—soon, but not yet. <A 
faithful friend from whom we willingly part in the spring 
and gladly welcome in the fall. 
Wuat Is Foss up to now? 
CiwAN-Up and paint-up, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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Tuer Forest Warpen has been busy these days of 
drought and the warnings which come-from his office 
should be heeded. The last two months have been ex- 
ceedingly dry and the rainfall has been unusually low. 
Rain is heat for vegetation, but its preventive value 
is particularly appreciated now. Forest workmen and 
cleaning squards must be careful about forest fires as all 
the woodland and forest floors are dry as tinder and 
small fires will endanger miles of standing timber. Obey 
the fire laws! There are reasons back. of the law that 
should be appreciated by every growing boy and every 
householder. 
Tue Frum still runs. 
the management. 
Opposition means dollars to 
Huerta SanutEs—but not with nor in 
Mexico. 
guns, 
Wir I Br an early Bird after the political worm? 
KONA MIN 
I sat on the brink of the *Oxera 
And beside me Kona Min; 
The river roared and the rocky **gja 
Reechoed with the din. 
On a summer’s night, 
In a bright sunlight, 
We scanned the rifted floor, 
The Mount of Law, 
We beheld with awe, 
As we talked of the deeds of yore. 
The plover piped by the rolling tide 
And foamingly flowed the linn; 
I gently drew to my beating side 
The form of sweet Kona Min. 
In the days of old, 
A wanderer bold, 
Breathed love to a blue eyed maid, 
On this self same spot, 
By the Troll-wife’s grot, 
Where the cairn gives friendly shade. 
In his Viking craft he had cut the crest 
To the strand of the ancient Nile, 
He had won his fight and filled his chest 
With the spoil of a Greecian isle. 
From the land of spice, 
To the realm of ice, 
He had fled with his warrior band; 
In the Gothi’s Hall, 
Midst lord and thrall, 
He had claimed the maiden’s hand. 
Long past is the day of this Viking bold, 
And his Hall is lost in dust; 
But the plover pipes as he piped of old, 
And love has the self same trust. 
So I held her hand, 
By a golden band,— 
That tender hand and slim,— 
And vowed through life, 
To love my wife,— 
For the girl was ***Kona Min. 
—W. S. C. RUSSELL. 
NOTES:—*Oxera, the falls that tumble into the famous Rift 
at the site of the ancient Icelandic Parliament, 
**Gja, Icelandic for chasm or rift. 
***Kona Min, the Icelandic for ‘‘my wife,’ 
