COLLEGES AND WORLD AFFAIRS

Since the war, college students have, to all appearances, known little and cared less about the conduct of foreign affairs. War enthusiasm seemed to have exhausted all their interest in Europe as a political laboratory; only lately have they begun to realize again that the relation of the United States with foreign powers concern them vitally.

Hence the convention that will meet at Princeton early in December is a note-worthy sign of this reawakening. Its avowed aims are to crystallize student opinion on the World Court and to attempt some kind of permanent organization among college students for the study of foreign affairs. Any influence, of course, which college students can bring to bear on the national government in favor of the World Court is desirable in itself, as also is the type of organization, which is planned. Yet, even if the Princeton convention accomplishes nothing in the way of concrete results, it will still have been worth while merely as a trustworthy indication that American colleges are losing that peculiar political color blindness which has been theirs since the armistice. The University may congratulate itself on having been intimately connected with the inception of this movement.