The Williams Athenaeum advances an admirable idea in proposing and advocating the establishment of a stronger "inter-collegiate feeling" among the colleges of this country. "Let us," it says, "discuss in our departments matters of general interest to the college press, and college world; create an inter-collegiate feeling beyond the mere exchange of college publications. There is enough which concerns us all, to make at least one department of our publications reach farther than our own campus confines." The growth of such a feeling is, we think, coming naturally in the course of events. Inter-collegiate sports, races and meetings, in one direction, are tending to foster this growth. In another, the widening feeling among college men, and college graduates, that they have many interests in common, that there should be more of such interests than of rivalries, goes to strengthen the idea. The conventions of the Greek-letter societies have a decided influence in cultivating this spirit among many colleges; though Harvard is only included in this circle of influences, to any extent, by means of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The recent suggestion of President Eliot, that the German custom of migrations of students from one college to another, during their course, be established in this country, bears in the same general direction. Among graduates, the establishment of university clubs at many of the larger cities of the country is significant. A general tendency towards greater co-operation among college faculties indicates the sentiment that is growing in the matter. The recently established American School of Classical Studies at Athens, under the auspices of American colleges, is a noticeable example of this latter tendency. Perhaps the time will come some day for the great convention of college students to consider and debate matters of common interest and importance to all!
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