INTEREST in Harvard and what Harvard men do seems to run high in other colleges. There is a report currently running at North Carolina State College to the effect that "Harvard freshmen want their young girl chambermaids replaced with older ones because the young ones sing and disturb the boys."

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Something that has just started up out at the University of California might interest the younger students who still have to go to section meetings. There they are taking out insurance against being called on in class. The premium charge is five cents, and if you are lucky enough to be called on by the innocent professor, you collect a quarter.

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A bewildered voice over the telephone called up a noted tutoring school before mid-years and asked for the names of some of the other students in his class. "It's a French course that meets in Emerson Hall," he explained.

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One professor is noted for telling the following story to the students in his course. It apears that when he came to Harvard from the middle west, he was required to take the Massachusetts literacy test. "Occupation," asked the examiner, curtly. "Professor at Harvard," came the reply. "Well then, can you read that?," he sneered, holding up a card on which was printed a list of simple words.

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The old adage that anybody will sign any petition is peculiarly well illustrated by the story of the petition to abolish final examinations which was passed around among the seniors at Syracuse a short while ago. Slipped into the middle was a clause which made all signers liable to a five year term on a Georgia labor gang. One hundred and fifteen signed the petition; only three refused.