Bowdoin Orient . nts, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contiibuteliterary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must beaccompanied by writers name, as well as the signature whichhe wishes to have appended. Eotered at the Post-OBBce ut Brunswick as Second Class mail matter. CONTENTS. Vol. XV., No. 9.—November 11, 1885. Autumn Leaves, 109 Editorial Notes 109 Dr. Samuel G. Brown, Ill Summer in the Sierras, 11,3 Kondeau, 114 Y. M. C. A. Convention 115 Twilight Eeverie, 116 CoLLEGii Tabula, 116 Personal, 118 Clippings, 119 AUTUMN LEAVES. The maple stands in bright through the
Bowdoin Orient . nts, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contiibuteliterary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must beaccompanied by writers name, as well as the signature whichhe wishes to have appended. Eotered at the Post-OBBce ut Brunswick as Second Class mail matter. CONTENTS. Vol. XV., No. 9.—November 11, 1885. Autumn Leaves, 109 Editorial Notes 109 Dr. Samuel G. Brown, Ill Summer in the Sierras, 11,3 Kondeau, 114 Y. M. C. A. Convention 115 Twilight Eeverie, 116 CoLLEGii Tabula, 116 Personal, 118 Clippings, 119 AUTUMN LEAVES. The maple stands in bright through the pleasant autumn days Is queen of all the in contrast to her firesThe fir-trees stand like solemn friars Close wrapped in sombre hoods. Yet all this brilliant foliage sheenIs but a moments flimsy screen Which fails to hide the end,Like smiles which seek to cover griefBut make it clearer by relief Where pain and pleasure snows shall find the maple bareBut firs will still be green and fair,. While reading in many of our re-cent exchanges comments upon the estab-lishment of an elective course at one college,or its extension at another, we have feltourselves fortunate io being members of acollege so near the van. For some yearsBowdoin has recognized the value of theelective system, the bounds of which werepractically extended a year ago, and thetendency here is evidently to make it broader,in which the students are naturally muchinterested. But are not more changes both practi-cable and advisable? We fully appreciatethe fact that our instructors know far betterthan the undergraduates what branches arebest adapted to secure the highest mentaltraining, yet in some respects the courseappears to us so far from the ideal that it isimpossible not to think an improvementmight be made. It is not our intention tomake an onslaught upon Greek and Latin, forprobably all who are now here will admit theadvantage of studying them, but we wouldlike to see increased time gi
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