THE FORUM AND THE G. O. P.

Men who go home today return to sundry breeding-places of "favorite sons." And thereby hangs a moral. The Forum, immediately after the recess, will meet to discuss the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Many fortunate students will escape from the depression of the Weeks boom into atmosphere charged with other enthusiasms. The members of the Chicago Club will find themselves in a water-tight Sherman compartment; Pennsylvania will find Penrose and Brumbaugh (both Harvard men, by the way) contending for laical honors; some may even reach the headwaters of the Missouri where Borah thunders or the Mississippi valley where Hadley,--the matinee idol of the last convention,--holds his afternoon performances. Here is an opportunity to keep one's ears open and come back charged with Forum material.

If your state has no favorite son, you doubtless know some one whom you could recommend. Said the Transcript recently, in regard to the choice of St. Louis for the Democratic convention: "It makes no difference where you're nominated when you're going to be defeated anyway." Similarly it makes little difference who you are. But the CRIMSON forbears to predict.