AN OLD CONTROVERSY.

Mr. Schenck's communication on the question of scholarships is the second step in an old controversy which might better have been left unopened, for the question of the respective records in scholarship of public and private school men is one that can never be settled satisfactorily till a far more minute investigation of the subject is carried out. Yesterday morning the CRIMSON merely stated that the bare figures, by giving fewer scholarships to private school men than to public school men, were unfavorable to the former; there was no conscious assumption as to what the achievements of either group should be. Mr. Schenck gives some reasons, which are doubtless true in part, as to the whys and wherefores of this prima facie numerical disadvantage to the private school graduates; there are arguments on the other side which he does not answer and which it would be far better not even to suggest. The whole subject is one which is much better let alone.