DOMESTIC EXCHANGE

A traveler is never so cheered as by a word of kind encouragement. The message from Princeton is at once one of godspeed and one of definite aid in the journey to the goal of the endowment fund campaign. Hitherto attention has been rather emphatically directed toward the pressing needs of the Business School; but Princeton has gracefully pointed out that the Department of Fine Arts is no less deserving of support. Its direct services to the nation are perhaps less easily estimated, yet to a people who hope eventually to develop a characteristic national art, it is of no little significance.

Not the least pleasing feature of the resolution is that it is a visible sign of the harmony which has attended the almost unique cooperation of the art departments of the two universities. The provincialism which once marked the relations of American universities has clearly no place in the present age. By exchange of professors and students each department has measurably strengthened the other. And the experiment may presage a time when the exchange of students with American colleges will assume the same importance as with English universities.

A growth of this practice would doubtless interrupt steady work for a degree within one university, but it would certainly contribute to a broading of vision. No college faculty ever contains all of the men under whom the student wishes to study, but by facilitating exchanges, American universities may at some future time turn out more scholars and fewer degree holders.