(Entitled "a Westerner's impression of Harvard University, written by a junior in the New England school who was last year a journalism sophomore here" the following article has appeared in the University of Washington Daily.)

. . . The general attitude of the students here towards studies is perhaps a little difficult to understand. At first one would think Harvard students are a pretty lazy bunch. Eight o'clock classes practically don't exist. A nine o'clock is an atrocity, a ten o'clock only tolerable, while the most popular hours are eleven and twelve o'clock lectures.

But underneath this apparent laziness, there is a different attitude. I think it can correctly be said that the Harvard student realizes that he has an almost unparalleled opportunity for study and contact with eminent professors. The students know what they want, and are willing to give a professor credit for it I think one of my biggest surprises came at the end of a lecture given to a large class. When the professor finished at the close of the hour, there was no grand scramble to get out, but the students applauded and then leisurely picked up their books and moved out.

Lecturers in large classes are always applauded, and, if the lecture has been well received, the applause would speak well for any professional lecturer who charges admission. I was in a class the other day in which a visiting German professor was lecturing. He ran over the hour by 12 minutes, yet no one left the room, made any motion to, or hardly realized the hour was up. . . .

In general, there seems to be a feeling or attitude that favors taking as a majors, a subject that may not necessarily fit in to future work with any direct connection at all. Thus, there are many students majoring in English, history, government, economics, and the like; and many of these students have no intention of making a direct application of their studies, but simply want to get a general cultural background.