As no other place in the country, Harvard is a gleaming pool of intellectual activity, a spring of sparkling facilities for cultural broadening. few students take full advantage of these opportunities, most of them plodding dully through their sixteen routine courses, unconscious of the flood around them. Yet, many of these intellectual draughts are free to any who will drink-to any who will take the time to audit courses or sit in occasional out-of-course lectures. Most students are aware of this; the crime is that so few avail themselves of it.

Auditing offers a means of enlarging the sphere of distribution courses, of gaining fundamental knowledge of subjects which would otherwise remain dark mysteries. The price is three hours a week, and there is such a large number of subjects which do not require technical knowledge or intensive study that wide choice can be had. In the category of courses attractive to auditors are Music 1, Fine Arts 1e, and survey courses in Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. English literature, history, and special fields of government-such as international relations-all offer a wealth of interesting information. Even if the auditor absorbs less than half of what the regular in-course student learns, he is adding much to his intellectual equipment.

Few students are so busy that the opportunity must remain closed to them; the main obstacles are laziness and intellectual torpidity. Possibly the University would do well to aid in overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life."