FACT AND COMMENT

What President Lowell of Harvard says of college democracy is worth repeating because it is true of all American colleges, so far as we know, and because the contrary is ignorantly believed by some folks:

"A democracy is where all kinds of people are gathered, and here at college there are all kinds. Of course there are rich men at Harvard, but there is also much deep poverty."

There are no "rich men's colleges." At Harvard, whose "Gold Coast" is much and sometimes maliciously advertised, we believe that considerably more than one-fourth, and we have heard it put as between one-fourth and one-half, of the students are dependent upon their own exertions or on scholarships or both for their support in whole or in part.