We give elsewhere that very threadbare argument about small colleges. President Anderson, of Rochester University, which is almost unknown, says that Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as they have at Rochester. Such statements are always very interesting, and often amusing. Rochester proudly says, "We have no tutors; all are professors." The inference is that the Rochester men get better instruction than we do. But they forget that a man is no better simply because you chose to call him "professor." If the Rochester "professors" are not above the ordinary Harvard tutor in education and ability, what is the advantage in having him for a teacher?

Furthermore, President Anderson claims that the professors which we do have do not carry on any of the "regular class work which forms the backbone of a good college course." This statement would be worth discussing, were it true; but unhappily President Anderson did not know what he was talking about. His little theory, although a very pretty one, does not fit the facts. For out of the one hundred and eighty-five courses offered here this year, only forty-five are in charge of anyone under the rank of assistant professor. Moreover, as we have said, many even of our tutors and instructors are as able as the Rochester University "professors."