THE SMITH COLLEGE MONTHLY is published at Northampton, Massachu- setts, on the 15th of each month, during the year from October to June, inclu- sive. Terms, $1.50 a year, in advance. Single numbers, 20 cents. Contri- butions may be left in the box outside the Monthly Room, Students' Build- ing. Subscriptions may be sent to Brooke van Dyke, Hubbard House, North- Articles designed for the literary departments for a particular issue must be submitted by the twenty-second of the month preceding. Entered at the Post Office at Northampton, Massachusetts, as second class matter. In the playing of a game or the directing of an enterprise the essential requirement for any degree of perfection is a keen sense of proportion. When in the game, we ask ourselves, shall we put forth our greatest strength, or what points in our enterprise demand the most careful forethought and attention? And so it is with our life,-call it work or play-we shall come to our highest perfection only as we look upon it in the truest possible perspective. Yet this principle is one very little recognized in proportion to its importance; one which we are constantly violating by erroneous habits of thought and by the careless use of words and phrases which call erroneous ideas into being. Such a phrase is "College Life", used not only by those intimately connected with collegiate institutions, but employed by everybody everywhere when speaking of college. This phrase most likely, grew out of the effort to give expression to the difference between the activities and relationships in a college community and those existing in the communities in which we ordinarily live. If this were the only importance of this phrase, we might censure it as an unfortunate necessity and let it pass. But the scope of its influence does not end here. From convey |