Extravagance and the College

We have been suffering of late from national and personal extravagance, from which the present depression is only the inevitable reaction. Nor are our colleges in this respect blameless. Out aim should be to have our college life sound and wholesome without extravagance in athletics or fraternities or other aspects of the social life of the college.

Thrift, proper economy, nor parsimony nor meanness, and hard work would be excellent watch wards for the academic year 1921-1922, which we are this morning in accord once with ancient laws of the college, at chapel service formally opening, and Bowdoin College has never been in better shape to do hard effective work. President Sells of Bowdoin as quoted in the Boston Herald.