COLLEGIATISM IN INK

The might of the pen having far surpassed the menace of the sword, it is hardly surprising that an age over-supplied with scribblers should invent a new outlet for ink. What better diversion than further to usurp the functions of the sword.

The professors and students of New York University have met on a new field of honor. Their jousting ground is a sheet of paper; their passage of arms the United States mail. Each side propounds question after its own kind, the professors chiefly wanting to know which end of a cow rises first and the students abhirs to discover why tourists visited Montreal before 1919.

It appears that both sides may be accused of flippancy incident to over-confidence. At any rate, the epic conclusion of this cultural conundrum conning hangs uneasily in the balance; while Richard Coeur de Lion rattles his armor in his tomb.