While metropolitan newspapers in reporting the speech laid emphasis upon the fact that Dean Greenough of Harvard had attributed failures in college to clubs and girls, an accurate account reveals the fact that he also laid the blame at the door of tutoring schools and a notorious inability to concentrate combined with a lack of intellectual ambition. The Dean is wrong in adhering to the popular conception that the social life of college is responsible for semi-annual dropping by the wayside. He is right, however, in his last three points.

A lack of educational desire combined with the inability to concentrate leads naturally to reliance upon the tutoring school, where, as the Dean points out, "the man with the twenty-four hour mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature, however, that there are so few such men in our colleges. The trend of education is fast rising, if the signs are not wrong. The near future will find the present type of black sheep entirely weeded out.

We are rather surprised by the fact that Dean Greenough has not scored extra-curriculum activities with their distracting features. The case in Princeton would seem to be, however, that men engaged in work outside the curriculum have learned the secret of earning good average marks and at the same time of carrying on other affairs. The more one has to do, the greater becomes one's capacity.

We hazard the guess, however, that even extra-curriculum activities will disappear within a comparatively short time. Princeton, at least, is becoming more and more of a student's college where not only does curriculum come first, but extra times goes to following out a favorite bit of erudite research-- to reading or to writing. Extra-curriculum activities and over-organization go hand in hand. We would not be surprised to see them fade away before many years have gone by. --The Princetonian.