A remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully."

Oh, why should he?" replied the other. "He has nothing to gain"

Just how prevalent the spirit implied in that answer is, we do not know. If it is common to a considerable number of men, then there is something about our undergraduate institutions that is all wrong; something that needs to be well remodelled. If prospect of personal gain alone will make a man undergo the hard work of training for football, for baseball or for rowing, then it should be made impossible for a man to obtain the greater, the more coveted honors until well toward the close of his college career.

We are unwilling, however to believe that the question "What has he to gain?" is one that many men would think of asking. Fortunately we have many athletes of whose loyalty and devotion there can be no question.