Excerpt from Tales of Bowdoin: Some Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present In later years, the improved laboratory facilities and increasing use of the library; the introduction of the elec tive system, and the advent of athletics; 'have given the students a free life Of their own. Hence the sphere Of arti ficial freedom which they formerly carved out for them selves, and which all save the genial Woods so deeply deplored, is no longer an educational and spiritual necessity to them. The students to-day are as free as they ever were; but it is a freedom in the life Of the college, rather than against it. Resistance is as necessary to the development Of character, as friction to the motion of a railway train; but the student now finds his resistance in the generous rivalry of fraternities; in the difficulties of self-chosen and congenial studies; and the prowess Of athletic teams from other institutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.