The modern college student's legs are weak and his head is softening, says the President of Union College. Neglecting all the sensible criticisms he might have made of the present generation of college men men, he chose these absurdities with which to open the year. Automobiles, he says, are responsible for the legs, and ease in general for the heads.

The species, of course, may be different at Union College; but elsewhere it is a pretty safe guess that the average run of legs and heads function as well as in the pre-Colgate era. If the two extremities of a student's anatomy be made the subject of presidential lecturing, the obvious criticism is not that students are being reduced to torsos, but that they run the danger of becoming either all heads or all legs.

At one end of the scale stands the grind, at the other the tramp athlete, and in between should be found the perfect student who seeks the Greek ideal of a vigorous mind in a beautiful body. The question that really deserves serious consideration is that of warped ideals, and not the minor influences of a manner of life which happens to include greater material comforts.