RETRO, SATANAS!

Another college has been drawn back from the path of Bolshevism by the enlightened authority of a board of regents. Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, accused of dalliance with progressive ideas, has been most happily snatched back to salvation. The death of Richard Scholz, its late president, gave the opportunity for the business interests of Portland, entrenched in the regents board, to deflect the college from its doubtful toying with ideas. The new president, Mr. Norman Coleman, was leader of the war time movement to oust the I. W. W. from mines and lumber camps. He is a stalwart defender of the political and social dogmata of the chamber of commerce, and accepts as his standard the business man's stamp of O. Keness.

The mediocre future of Reed College need hardly be described. The liberalism of views expressed by a faculty which had been freed by their president's resistance from the pressure of an uncomprehending board of regents, is no longer to be dangerous. The originator of so thorough, if unofficial, a persecution of economic dissenters will not be too sympathetic to any ideas which might be accused of unorthodoxy. His constant care will be to purge Reed College of its liberal fevers. From hence-forth, Reed College must play, in the educational sphere, a respectable if uninspired and totally mediocre role.