Arizona republican., 1902-11-15

painted floors, ragged carpets, shabby furniture, shockingly greasy cushions. untidy wall paper, dirty mattresses and blankets, and to extraordinary discom- fort?
 ''Is it not in spite of these that they have become the finest gentlemen in the world? I do not believe in the discipline of dirt. Discomfort and rigid simplicity are no doubt salutary.> Of these I do not complain. But I do hes itate in my admiration of the great university that countenances unnec- essary disregard of cleanliness
 Now. the facts about this complaint are that the condition of the carpets, furniture and ct cetras of the students rooms are his own concern and his family's entirely. If this is unsatisfac- tory he is expected to remedy it by providing his own.
 The colleges in the British universi- ties undertake to educate youth, to feed him and lodge him and to exer- else a general supervision over his health and conduct; but they do not pretend to supply him with the com forts of home. His comforts are his own affair.
 So far as it is able, each college lodges it's men within it's own walls. For those left out of this arrangement it finds lodgings in the town and su- | pervises their management. The col l lege provides a room and service, for which the student pays. He or his family supplies the furniture and equipments.
 The usual arrangement is that the retiring tenant of the rooms. having completed his course. sells his furni | ture to his scout" or "gyp," who in turn disposes of it at a profit to the newcomer whom he expects to serve in | turn. If there is anything broken or | lacking the newcomer must buy it. 1 Then he can supplement the bed, chairs. table, bookcase, carpets, linen and tableware with such of his per sonal treasures as he wishes to bring 1 to the university.
 In some cases the colleges have tried to abolish the extortions possible under this system by buying the furniture themselves and renting it with the rooms to the students. But the ar engagement is purely voluntary.
 If the undergraduate doesn't like the equipment provided he can supply his own. He will have to pay for it in either case, so it is simply a choice be- 1 tween renting from the college, rent ing from a furniture man on his own | account and buying outright.
 So that, so far as the furnishings of | college rooms are concerned, their squalor, or luxury, is regarded as the undergraduate own affair. He can remedy that condition, due to the hab- it's of his predecessors, if he pleases. It | is all a question of expenditure.
 At the same time it is true that in the university rooms the American stu dent accustomed to life at Harvard or
 Yale will probably be none too well pleased with his surroundings, so far | as his rooms are concerned. The ] buildings are old and time has not improved their interior condition.
 Modern conveniences are remarkabl
 for their absence. Cracks in the walls and warped doors and window sashes admit draughts. The only heat is from a small open fire in the sitting room
 There are many college rooms still
 lighted by oil lamps.
 Each student in college has a set of
 three rooms to himself-that is study
 or living room, bed room and a small
 box-hke pantry in which to keep coal