THERE are three forces by which a college government may be made to progress. These are, Necessity, Legacies or Gifts, and Public Opinion. Of these, necessity is the strongest, legacies act the most quickly, and public opinion is the weakest and takes the longest time in producing its results. But when it takes such a positive form as a general refusal to live in a certain building, it makes itself felt more promptly. It has taken only six or eight years of continual talk among the students and constant complaint in the College papers, to make it evident to the authorities that something must be done about Thayer. This year, finding that, notwithstanding the reduction in the rents of rooms in that building, a number of them were still unoccupied, it has been determined to heat the entries of that building. Public opinion, like the mill of the gods, grinds slowly, but the final result is generally eminently satisfactory. There ought to be a rush for the remaining rooms.
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