The current issue of the Advocate confirms two beliefs long held by some of us, that most if not all of the contents of a college paper should have some connection with college life or thought, and that there is available for such a paper material much more interesting than the average short story. Here is an Advocate without a story; every article bears on some matter of college interest. The result is a decidedly enteriaing number.

In the leading article W. L. Stoddard deals with the present burning--shall we say sizzling?--question in academic and literary circles, the recent discovery by William Stone Booth of acrostic signatures of Francis Bacon systematically embodied in the poems the sonnets and all of the plays usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that we are now to have a fair and dispassionate study and presentation of the Shakespeare-Bacon problem by the English departments of our colleges.

Dr. H. A. Christian, Dean of the Medical School, contributes an article on "Medicine as a Career." Especially valuable is his discussion of the many possibilities afforded by a medical career, and of the rewards, pecuniary and other, which medicine offers.

There short sketches fill out this number. "The importance of Being a Grind" by W. C. Greene, and its companion piece. "The Importance of Being a Sport," by H. E. Porter, remind us of one of the best Advocate periods,--some fifteen years ago, when Mr. Flandran and his contemporaries were describing Harvard Types." But with this difference today the dissecting of the victim seems kindlier; the sareasm almost genral.

R. E. Andrews mrnishes two bits of verse. The villane is cleverly handred, while his "Firelight Fancy" is not without grace.

We are glad to see the number of editorials increasing. Let us have more ssneat as the leading editorial in this number.