When a native son leaves for Harvard, the folks back home are in constant fear that he will return with the above characteristics plus the additional herrer of a proper Bostonian accent. Of course, he never does adopt any of these features for he knows it would mean complete social ostracism.

No matter how hard the Mid-Western student works, he finds it difficult to overcome this fallacy concerning his fellow scholars.

One Minnesota student, hitch-hiking home last summer, was picked up by a salesman from Iowa.

"Harvard, huh?" said the salesman. "Sure got a lot of fruits out there."

It's an Uphill Fight

For 250 miles the student explained why the driver was wrong and the salesman nodded at polite intervals. Five hours later, the salesman let the student out and drove off with a wave of the hand and a "Say hello to those fruits for me."

In contrast to the South's convictions, Mid-Westerners consider all Harvard men rock-ribbed reactionaries. Tied in with this political conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch.

Beyond the Rockies Harvard is a "brain factory," only to the equalled by the University of Chicago. Hybe word "factory", West Coast residents indieste to the production of great intellect, write to a single thought to the development of than able to get along in the world.

Groton, the Incuberer

"The average Far thinks that Harvard men come from other Boston or Long Island, by way of Greton," says a student from California.

"They all think we to go all the way across the continue for an education when there are so many colleges on the Coast," adds another from .

Although each section to differ on the specific means of , the West Coast would agree with South and Mid-West that Harvard man, but you ."

Despite all those , the true, underlying attitude American people toward Harvard is the statement of a Milwaukee matron the parents of a local boy studying at Harvard.

"I never thought your son Peter would make much of himself. And now look at him, a junior at Harvard."