As we have pattered about the cloistered halls of our college we have noticed with increasing alarm the tendency we have to make declarations followed by a row of periods: "The thing about college is that it's broadening:" "Americans as a rule are lacking in culture:" "Men are easily understood by women but women will always be a mystery to man." Conspicuous exceptions to all these generalities immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships.

In order thus to pack the problem of the world into a neat word-pattern, it is necessary to eliminate the matter which does not accord with our preconceived hypothesis. We will see proof for our statement in everyone we meet, and quite ignore the opposing evidence which is apt to be every bit as obvious and sometimes even more frequent.

A sense of humor implies an ability for seeing the discrepaucies in even the most serious of our beliefs, and those of us who wrap our home-made philosophy in waxed paper, all ready to take home to the kiddies, are ignoring these discrepancies. We would do better to keep an open mind and take the best that human knowledge has to offer us and leave the sweeping statements to those whose limited knowledge permits them the Presumption of such generalities. Vassar Miscellany News.