INTELLECTUAL SPORTS

The "Nation" throws Barnard's hat into the ring; claiming that the recent action of the Student Council there, taking a stand against faculty censorship, proves "the truth of the remark that women's colleges are about the most intellectual spots in the United States." Frankly, we consider this an unnecessary dig at male conceit; even if the women's colleges are above the intellectual Parnassus on which men's colleges serenely squat, what of it? It can probably be said of them as, it was of Shelley that they have both feet and heads in the clouds; which is not exactly dignified. And it tempts one to invite them to come down to earth. We must not be construed, however, as implying disagreement with the ideas about censorship expressed. We think Clark University wrong in insisting on faculty supervision, and it is obvious that Williams has given undue publicity to the "Record's" fall. But the kept idealists of the "Nation" and the "New Republic" must have their fling.