THE T. B. M. AND THE T. C. B.

Among the inhabitants of the United States there is a large class of workers known as "tired business men." The majority are fairly prosperous, useful members of society; yet, somehow, one pities them as being persons with their noses to the grindstone, bound by invisible chains of duty of business and to family, to a daily routine that is cramping to the soul, that is fatal to any complete comprehension of the significance of things. Because his life is so often narrow, because he usually tires his brain so much in doing one thing that he has no appreciation of what are commonly called the fine arts, the t. b. m. is considered unfortunate.

This class has its analogy at the University; the workers who are useful members of the undergraduate society, and are fairly prosperous in the commodities that are of value in undergraduate life. This group might be called that of the "tired college boy." It is an unfortunate fact that in the spirit of restlessness that prevails in this community, many of these "t. c. b."'s lose sight of the educational advantages that surround them; they become business men, tired business men, even before they are out of college. They are paving their way to worldly success, but are they preparing for a life that will be of value of them and to the community in which they live after graduation? Harvard prides itself on being a replica, on a small-scale, of life; it would be an unfortunate thing if the evils, as well as the advantages, of metropolitan life, were permanently incorporated in the daily round of undergraduate activities.