The notice of the Columbia Commencement which took place last Wednesday occupied, in fine print, two full newspaper pages. It gave the names of 4300 persons receiving degrees in course. This is not only more than the attendance in most colleges and even universities, but it is more than the total alumni list of many a historic college.

With such an army of candidates for degrees in a variety of distinct schools. It is no wonder that little class spirit or even class consciousness exists in the student body as a whole. Even in the school of arts there was so little cohesion among the more than 300 seniors that all the traditional Class Day features had to be abandoned except the senior prom. Only twenty seniors had shown themselves sufficiently interested to buy tickets to the Class Day exercises as planned.

Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal