Apropos of the recent abortive attempt by the Liberal Club to introduce a bill conferring the rights of man upon the pudding Sophomore, we are reminded by previous experience of the beatific results we might anticipate from the innovation. At Amherst, so the story runs, until the turn of the century the undergraduate enjoyed the privilege of the ballot with unusually beneficial results. Being in a majority at the town meetings, the direction of affairs lay pretty much in their hands, and they led the good townspeople a merry dance through their control of the local treasury.

Among some of the benefits which the students conferred upon themselves was a nifty street-lighting system in the vicinity of Fraternity Row to the detriment of the more refined portion of Amherst which was compelled to find its way home by the light of uncertain kerosene while the college man enjoyed the mellow light of gas. Perhaps the climax of their attempts at home rule came, however, when a determined bloo passed a bill calling for an appropriation sufficient to defray building a covered walk between Amherst and Smith. No evidence of this proposed boon to mankind a visible today, but the measure carried its own marks of perpetually since the outraged townspeople, in session assembled during the summer vacation, summarily--and the students claimed unconstitutionality--deprived the latter of the suffrage.