THE COLLEGE

If anyone wants to know what a college sounds like when it is in full swing, a warm spring night is the best time for finding out. With doors and windows wide open, the student hubbub pours out in full volume, the normal, business-like noises punctuated by loud laughter and the bull bellows of those feeling the vernal influence in virulent form. Everything seems twice as loud as necessary—an opinion held by the book-hitter whose fullthroated cry for quiet exceeds all other dormitory sounds in decibel strength. But he has small chance of getting his wish right away, and he might as well hang out of the window for a while and add more noise to the night. From 10:30 to 11 is the peak period; then things gradually settle down to a comparatively mild hum—just the right note for a college very much alive, savoring the perfection of a Hanover spring night, and not allowing the uncertainties of tomorrow to spoil it.