A great deal of publicity has been given the two students in American universities who recently turned down Phi Beta Kappa keys and the result has been much talk and speculation among students and others as to their reasons for refusing to accept an honor so great.

After all, there are only two possible reasons we can see why such an honor should be passed up. The first is a desire to be original and individual. This is a desire which burns in the breast of many a young man and woman, both in universities and outside. It tempered with discretion, such a desire is well worth while. But if one permits his desires in that direction to run into the unreasonable it at once becomes ludicrous.

If the young man in the eastern school and the Wisconsin co-ed who turned down phi "Beta" keys were seeking to be new and different they certainly succeeded but one must feel some doubts as to what it will avail them. The selected on ore the most worth while honorary societies in American university and colleges to use for there for purpose. If they really were conseientions in the reasons they give for not wanting the key we must come to the conclusions that their judgement are a little warped they are idealistic beyond all hope or reason; or else, they simply did not realize what Phi Beta means.

Another possible reason for their actions may have be desire to gain publicity. This urge touches many persons and classes in the world at present and it may have a reached into the ranks of college student we doubt whether the students who turned down Phi "Beta" were common enough to be moved by such motives--Indiana Daily Student.