MAKING HIM DRINK

Not because it prepares its students for the profession which requires a maximum of brute strength has the Dental School decided on compulsory athletics for its members. More probably the authorities realized that the men in the Dental School are peculiarly unfortunate in their relation to athletic facilities, lying as they do far from the gymnasia and squash courts of Cambridge. Students in the Law and Business Schools, as well as those in the graduate schools more closely related to the College, have always found it easy to spend a little time each day in Hemenway or a conveniently located squash court warren.

Lacking, besides a share in the general University facilities, the special equipment recently installed in the Medical School's new dormitory, the members of the Dental School have had to depend on individual initiative in ferreting out some mode of regular exercise. The arrangements recently effected with the Y. M. C. A. now put a wide rango of athletic opportunity before these men and only lassitude can explain negligence on the part of upperclassmen. Not even this loophole is allowed Freshmen for they are required to take some form of exercise at least twice a week. The apparent paternalism on the part of the authorities is easily excusable in view of the novelty of a scheme involving a dovetailing of a graduate school and the Y. M. C. A. Such gentle urging as may be included in a two-a-week requirement will do much to establish a beaten path to a strange door, which once found will be reached in subsequent years through the automatic agency of habit.