Item: Industrialist James Gority, late of Adrian, Michigan, has bequeathed $5,000 to Notre Dame to make available to undergraduates courses in golf and bridge. Mr. Gority considered a knowledge of these games a real asset.

And Mr. Gority is undoubtedly correct. Any industrial tycoon will tell you that as many deals are closed on the links as in Wall Street conference rooms; and probably more secret information has been communicated over the bridge table than in all the Top Secret meetings of the Pentagon.

So to an ambitious young college graduate, a working knowledge of Culbertson on Contract, and a limber swing off the seventh too would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal.

And Harvard would not be setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature.).

Who would be a better Professor of Applied Golfing Tactics than Mr. Ben Hogan, recently retired world's champion professional golfer? Mr. Hogan could give his students skull practice in Burr A, set up a driving range in Memorial Hall, a putting green in Houghton's rotunds, and practice chip shots into the balcony from the first floor of the Union. With such a difficult course to learn on and such unexcelled instruction, there's no telling where Mr. Hogan's students would end up. They might even be President.

The University might be able to lure General Alfred Gruenther, one of the acknowledged world's amateur experts on bridge, to take the Goren Chair of Whist after he retires from his present job. With such a distinguished professor teaching the course, it would soon become the largest in the University.

The University administration's inherent conservatism might well scotch such an ambitious program, but if one of Harvard's alumni who has achieved fame and fortune through the medium of golf or bridge would follow Mr. Gority's example, the College could take its rightful place beside Notre Dame on the frontiers of education.

Who would such a graduate be? Robert T. Jones '24, of Atlanta, Georgia, of course