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"The Old Dog" has barked again. His first attack in the Saturday Evening Post of October 11 discussed colleges in general and Harvard in particular. His second, "Spiked Shoes," has just appeared in the March 21 issue of that magazine. He writes of himself as a 40-year-old undergraduate at Harvard.
The University is explored by his pen and the question, "What price education?" is considered both from his position as an undergraduate and from the vantage point of maturity.
He believes the undergraduate attitude to be typified by the statement, "I get the point you're trying to make, but I didn't come here to get facts."
Of the attempt to carry a multiplicity of courses he says: "The thing simply cannot be done intelligently. It isn't.
"'The true end of knowledge is always use,'" said the CRIMSON in a recent editorial on this subject. "But before knowledge can be used it would seem to be obvious that it must first be acquired."
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