THE FIERCE WHITE LIGHT

How many students, if any, were beguiled by the appeliation of "cultured young American" into answering the questionnaires anent the modern girl sent out recently by a New York daily, will never be known; nor what heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration of war.

With a large percentage of the youth of the country enrolled in colleges, those institutions should be no novelty to any man or woman who knows how to read. It is difficult to find a logical reason for all the excitement; undergraduates as a whole let the world, including such newspapers and magazines, alone; why should those papers evince such a morbid interest in them? Evidently, however, their editors find that the propaganda is welcomed by a certain class of readers; if they continue their researches indefinitely, they should finally succeed in creating a mass of myths and legends concerning the College Boy--the discussion of the Younger Generations having at last become stale. Meanwhile the unwitting object of all this attention goes unconcerned upon his way.