School Associations.

At the present day there are associations in all the larger cities of the United States representing the various colleges. Princeton is especially active just now in founding new Princeton clubs in different places that may reunite her graduates and also keep alive a tender feeling, for the University, which shall cause them to send their sons to the same college. Harvard has no need of this sudden outburst of proselytism, because Harvard clubs are already very widespread and influential. The work has been done in past years and we are now reaping the benefits of it. The way in which these clubs come to be founded is a very natural one. Almost every student looks back upon his college life with regret, remembering it as one of the pleasantest periods of his life. Anything that serves to remind him of this time is desirable and these different clubs, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. afford the best means of bringing about this result. While this seems perfectly natural in regard to college life, it does seem curious that there should be practically nothing which should remind us of our school-life. Many of us probably have some unpleasant recollections of school. Who has not? But he must have been a curious boy indeed who did not manage to have a good time at school in spite of the teacher. It is true that fellows are not thrown so much together at a day school as they all are in Cambridge; but on the other hand they generally remain more than four years at school. The associations which many of the more important schools have formed, try to keep alive the school spirit and bring the graduates together; but in most cases they are far from successful, and none thinks of attending their meetings, even if he takes the trouble to join them after leaving school. Explain it as we will, the fact remains that most fellows do nothing about perpetuating the reminiscences of school life, although they act quite differently about their college life.