A University professor recently commented on the difference he noted between a student who had merely studied a subject and one who had concentrated on it. The student who passes with an "A" often knows little of a subject compared with one who has put his mind upon the matter for a definite period of time.

Think back over your own experience in college. Have you ever become interested in one single thing to the extent of giving it every moment you could spare for a solid week? Probably not. Yet even this would be scanty concentration as far as real concentration goes and without intense application, you can hardly except to rise above the average.

Perhaps it is not all your fault. Suppose that in your Senior year you found that you could obtain an excellent position if you mastered a certain subject, say history. You would try to concentrate upon it, to give evening after evening and day after day to the subject. But how far would you get if you were an average student? Monday night you would have a meeting; you might have another Thursday. Friday night you would be expected to attend an organization dance and Saturday night you would be called upon to support the debating team. You might throw up the sponge and try again next week, but next week would probably prove just as bad. In the end, your study of the subject would be irregular and much distracted; the exact opposite of concentration.

The very system of mixing up a student's course in college so that he gets a bit of this and a bit of that, all intermingled, almost destroys the possibility of concentrating on anything long enough to remember it. Add to this activities and work, and you have an atmosphere as far as possible from ideal.

The conclusion to which the professor came and to which the average person would probably come after consideration was this: A student in college must be a so-called "nut", but in order to really concentrate upon any study. Must a "good, all-round college man" practically destroy his chance of mastering anything? --Washington Daily.