It would seem, from the recently printed words of President Robinson of Brown University, that the idea that a man of prime physical development must necessarily be lacking in strength of intellect has not yet been entirely abandoned. We had thought that this fallacy had been long ago exploded, but when a man occupying so prominent a position as does President Robinson, deliberately states it as his conviction that the students who hold positions on the various athletic teams are wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists, Are our students ever so carried away by the fascination of sport as to suffer any appreciable interference with their regular college duties? We must again answer in the negative, for the men who have won seats in our boats, or places upon our nines are to be found among the most regular attendants at the required exercises of the college, while it is a notorious fact that the most systematic loafers in college are to be found among the non-athletic men. Can we, then, accept this dictum of President Robinson's as holding true of American students in general? Obviously not; nor can we be made to believe that the students of Brown, in particular, are so constituted as to be incapable of at the same time engaging in sport and study, with profit to themselves. We must, then, grant that President Robinson holds a mistaken view of the situation, and, granting this, we cannot but feel surprised that so extreme a view should have been received with "great applause" by the alumni of Brown, before whom the words referred to were spoken.