Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of Colleges. . . First, there are the gentlemen's clubs for the prolongation of adolescence. There is no need to be disturbed about them. They will continue while the economic system that nourishes them endures. They have no relation to learning, theoretical or applied. So let them stand. There are in the second place, the colleges associated with technical, professional graduate and trade schools. Time and circumstance are taking care of the college in this group also. The term of so-called "liberal arts" work is now cut to about two years, and the course of instruction is still in process of dissolution. In a little while it will have no reason for existence except to afford and introduction to technical and professional training. This far from being a cause for distress, out the to be a source of congratulation. Mankind makes advance by shedding delusions and when we get rid of the idea that a college education is connected with wisdom or has any fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain in clarification. The business of the college will be to defend the existing order (if it will stay still long enough to be called "existing") and to prepare the youth to make an honest living in it. That is clear and admirable. There is the future of the "college". By deliberately working along these line, in the light of a definite purpose, our educators might speed up the process and make it more defensible and intelligible to the general public. Somina Vana in The Freeman.