SNOOPING AGAIN

The weekly magazine which had already distinguished itself by its fatherly interest in collegiate affairs has just announced a series of articles on the "morality, or lack of morality, found in American colleges." The inevitable questionnaires have been sent out, asking if various misdemeanors, not unheard of in the world outside, have been observed within the academic walls. The American co-educational student, particularly, is dragged over the coals the faults of women are naturally more interesting to readers of the type who by now are familiar with the legend that the college man is a fur-coated rogue.

It is a pity that muek-raking of this sort cannot be controlled. The only thing which might make the survey of any value to socioligists and others having a legitimate interest in the subject has been left out--a comparison of derelictions in student life compared with those outside. It is plainer than ever before that this publication is using the colleges as fair game for creating an illusion of gilded sin, just as magazines of an earlier age created the myths of "high society".