College Training vs. Politics.

A recent number of the Boston Globe contained a column and a half of gossip concerning the members of the recently convened "General Court" of Massachusetts. The following paragraph, showing the sources from which the legislators of the state obtained their education, cannot be without interest to Harvard students.

"The returns from the senators are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduates who may be harboring an ambition to sit at the round board. The public schools may claim as their own 14 of the senators, while 13 received the finishing touches in academies. Harvard University, including the Law School, graduated 4; Amherst 2; Tufts: Williams, 1; and other colleges 2. Senator Howard was self educated. Hon. William Trowbridge Forbes of Westboro was once an instructor in Mathematics in Robert College, Constantinople. Of the representatives, 165 got all their schooling in the public schools, 39 are from academies and 36 from colleges and universities, Harvard having 10; Boston University (law school), 10; Amherst 2; Dartmouth, 2; Brown, Yale, Colby, Holy Cross and Tufts, 1 each; and all other colleges and universities 7."