NIGHT-SCHOOL

The tired seventh-grouper may soon look for new reenforcement in his semestral battle against the foreclosure of probation. Although ordinary lecturers have difficulty in impressing drowsy auditors, experimenters now claim success in educating persons in their sleep. Live-wire intellectual bootleggers are, it is rumored, watching for practical developments, and with the early perfection of these methods, pocket dictaphones will be smuggled into lectures. Then the semi-annual student will buy records instead of notes; and with a gramophone at his bedside, he may take a full night's rest before his most trying examination.

Other possibilities of this somno-education, this sponge method of culture, present themselves in infinite variety. The Widow's establishment may become a dormitory, with a corps of specially trained mental nurses; extra cots must be provided for transients on nights before quizzes; and, for safety's sake, separate wards will be needed for different subjects. College life will again become a less strenuous occupation: the word "school" will again mean leisure. But heaven help the insomniac!