Rising standards for admission to college threaten the country with a loss of valuable manpower, according to President Remsen B. Ogilby of Trinity college. This is due to the fact that colleges are "ruthlessly disregarding the individual problem of the youth who has been dropped from college."

It is quite true that many students leave college after one term or one year, never to return. Usually, having found themselves unfit for college work, or uninterested, they enter business, and more often succeed well enough. The loss of four years at college does not seem to affect their business acumen, nor that of many who never attempt to go to college. Perhaps Dr. Ogilby's complaint comes from too high an esteem for a college degree, which may mean very little when secured, as is often, by a minimum of application to carefully chosen, easy courses.

When colleges to "salvage" those who have proved themselves unfit or uninterested by easing requirements to allow them to return, they are discriminating against the many applicants who must be turned away without a first chance. By such a policy the college would turn out mediocre students at the expense of many real scholars whose work would be held up the lagging of the salvaged few. Amherst Student,