Elephantiasis has seized upon Yale no less than on other colleges and universities throughout the country. The Yale News, realizing the imminent danger of an unwieldy institution, now advocates abolition of the common freshman year which has for the past decade united the Sheffield Scientific School with the Yale college. The News believe that this merge, temporary through its duration is has produced little except overpopulation and chaos.

Without presuming to give advice on a problem which is essentially one for Yale alone, it would seem to the average student that the position of the News is no more than logical. To establish each department as a unit would be to strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate as long as the spirit of an institution flourishes. And certainly the News platform does not point to the contrary. No longer can American colleges rely solely on the past. What faces educators of today is to provide for the students of tomorrow. "Bigness is no measure of greatness and we believe that Yale college's numerical size with all the liasons which bind the college to "Sheff" and the freshman year is the factor which disintegrates the undergraduate public opinion and makes a house that is divided against itself." The proposal to sever the year-long relationship would at least clean that house which, as the News has said, is divided against itself; whether it would make more sturdy to structure is a question which only a fair trial of the plan could answer.