The Japanese ivy bids fair to transform completely the appearance of the streets in our northern cities, and it will be a pity if our college buildings do not share this transformation. We have a little ivy here and there. And no one who has observed what a change this little makes in the dingy, dusty, dreariness of the older buildings, can help regretting that the college has not taken the trouble during past years to set out more vines. The autumn coloring of these ivy leaves during the past few weeks has been most beautiful. And when we think how rapidly the vine grows and how easily all our older buildings might by this time have been completely clad in this garb, we feel constrained to suggest to the authorities that they give our descendants this pleasure, by beginning now the cultivation of the Japanese ivy on the walls of the college buildings.
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