We welcome the resumption of The Arts series of afternoon teas. They are valuable for more than the tea and cakes alone; they help to make the College think. We do not like to refer too often to intellectualism; like a great many others we are not quite sure that we know just what the term means. And it is probably more accurate to say that what The Arts promotes is interest, interest in the College as well as in the outside world, and interest in things material as well as in things mental. The program of the society should be as broad as its members' desire for selfcuture; the officers do well in making no attempt at restriction.

The foregoing paragraph deals with The Arts as it might be, and as we believe it soon will be if present tendencies continue. Unfortunately the plane from which it has to start is lower than most people know or like to think about. While it is true that the College has advanced far from the old corduroy- trouser-dirty-sweatshirt days much of the old indifference to matters not essentially material remains; and it is against this that The Arts is forced to contend. It is to the lasting credit of the few brave souls who have kept up the fight in the past few years, even though discouragingly outnumbered, that The Arts is now, almost for the first time, showing promise of an untroubled health in the future. The number of tea-drinkers is increasing rapidly; and as we cannot believe that a man can drink tea on seriously without some softening and mellowing influence coming over him, we are forced to the welcome conclusion that aestheticism is at last making progress in what formerly seemed a barren field.

The College needs a clearing house for ideas. The Arts might easily fill this function. It might even bring about the "revival" that has been called for, Some things can be accomplished over cake and tea that are impossible to toast-side and coffee. The Dartmouth.