THE CAMELIOUS HUMP

It is difficult to decide just what to conclude from the startling information that 2300 Harvard students do not eat. Whether this is merely an extreme manifestation of the beloved "indifference," or whether these students have developed a stoic philosophy which nips incipient appetites in the metaphorical bud, is at present impossible to say. The fact remains that every day, this by no means negligible number is unaccounted for in the respectable eating houses of Cambridge.

Of course, it may not be the same 2300 who fail to partake of nourishment every day. One might almost guarantee that it is not. Some other 2300 probably take turns; there may be any number of shifts who regularly skip a day or two each week. But that there should be so many youthful ascetics seems remarkable. The foregoing of food is not ordinarily a vice of the young.

There may be, on the other hand, some secret bootlegging of provisions about which the public knows nothing. Then again, there are those who live by their wits, and those who live by their friends. Perhaps about 600 may be the members of the Class of 1926, who have reacted from the forced feeding of their freshman year, and formed the well-known sophomore habit of living by drink alone. But in spite of these amply justified conjectures, the actual explanation is yet to be found. The mystery of the 2300 abstemious students demands solution.