With the academically dead and dying scattered untidily all over The Hill, the cause of good scholarship is shedding a discreet tear just behind the scenes. Causes and alibis for "busting," and pro-bations are more plentiful than ever, but none answer the damning indictment that too much of Cornell has been guilty of intellectual slovenliness during the past term.

There have been few citations in the orders of Davy for conspicuous action in the academic field of honor. But the casualty list is lengthy.

The fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster.

In the final analysis, the blame for academic casualties rests almost entirely with the student. It is easy to argue successfully against this conclusion, but the argument convinces no one but the individual concerned. There is a vast deal of intellectual deadwood and rubbish desecrating the upper stories of many Cornellians.

Spring time is the time for house-cleaning. With the impetus given by the faculty in cleaning out a large number of near-brainless wonders, and students who failed to climb the academic grade, a mental house-cleaning of every individual should be easy.

The sufficing reason is on deck--Cornell harbors no intellectual derelicts. In this best of all possible worlds, it becomes necessary for the college student to organize himself mentally for the trials and tribulations of the coming term, else the battle-scarred survivors of this term's finals be but a handful of

The job of a University is education, bespectacled highbrows.

So get it. --Cornell Sun.