A GUIDE TO INTERESTS

In the spring the very young man's fancy turns to thoughts of concentration. To aid but not to direct this stream of consciousness is the CRIMSON's purpose in offering a series of articles, the first of which deals with the field of Economics and is written by Professor Carver.

Since the major part of one's scholastic work during three-fourths of the college period depends upon the choice of concentration, it is easily seen that there is more involved than a mere selection of courses and arrangement of schedules. Men who are pre-eminent in their specialties are, naturally, the men who can best discuss the problems which face those in search of a field. And it is to these men and to one's personal inclinations that the average Freshman will look for guidance. No bills are being peddled, no fields exploited; the chief objective of these articles is to illuminate obscure points and to explain matters which to the uninitiated may seem technical and menacing. If the present articles succeed in partly diffusing these clouds which usually hover about Freshman predilections they will not have failed in their aim.