clubs, was organized in 1896, and in succeeding years gave concerts in the city and surrounding towns. It then went the way of its predecessors, to be revived again a decade later. In 1898, trustees and faculty acceded to a student request for an October holiday, to be known as "Mountain Day," a custom that continued for many years. Students and teachers went on hikes and bicycle trips to Mount Wachusett or Mount Monadnock. Among the most ardent of the hikers, and chief sponsor of the holiday, was Professor Coombs, who for years wove the experiences of the day into the subject matter of his famous English lectures. The tense situation when the "robber came out from the ice house" is a cherished alumni memory.