Yale, we have been told, has one great advantage over Harvard in the application of the College Plan. Since the social experimentation here and at Cambridge has been along such identical lines, we can at every point examine just what happened at Harvard and regulate our own actions accordingly. It is therefore of interest to read in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin a brief and dispassionate survey of certain social aspects of the system.

The article deals with two specific points--the extent to which different houses have developed an esprit de corps, and the effect the house plan has had upon social cliques within and without the houses. Regarding this first point, although the author comes to no final conclusion, yet his remarks are certainly negative in implication.

While he praises the house teams, dances, plays, and committees, yet he remarks further on, "And then you notice that most of this sturm and drang is concentrated in the hands of a few restless individuals so oddly ambitious that they elect themselves to responsible offices, and so slightly occupied that they have time to fulfill the attendant chores. The rest of the student body pursues its own sweet, egocentric way hardly disturbed by the periodic abullitions of these willing horses. More, you come to realize that any three men you select at random will have more friends outside the House than in it--and not many altogether at that." He fails to find, furthermore, any evidence of differentiation between the various units.

Probably more important is the discussion of the second point--how different groups within each house have mixed. He points at the partial breakdown of the clubs, to be sure, but follows this up with this suggestive message, "Ask any one of the handsome and efficient headwaitresses who quietly preside over our eating-halls and if you are tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily sit, and where the St. Groticsex boys disport themselves. She will tell you that she has seen individual units of these disparate sects thrown together at the same table, quite frequently, but that she has never, from one year to the next, seen them introduce themselves, or heard them utter anything more intimate than "Please pass the salt." --Yale Daily News.