The writing of college songs seems to have become one of the lost arts. With every year the appearance of new songs that have any distinctive college stamp and flavor is becoming more rare. It is difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively and "taking" college songs. The most plausible explanation of the change, however, is found in the recent growth and wide-spread popularity of comic opera and similar music of the day. It is suggested that these light and popular melodies are coming to take the place in college life of the older class of distinctively college songs. And so, with the rapid abandonment of all the more prominent characteristics of student life that is taking place, we are now to see the decay of the art of writing and singing college songs. However satisfactory or however insufficient this explanation may be, it seems to be an undoubted fact that this art is fast disappearing from our midst - the art of writing songs with all the old nerve and swing of "Bingo" or "Cocachelunk," at least - a fact truly to be regretted and melancholy to contemplate.