WHEN SUMMER COMES

Along with the huge increase in American university enrollment during the past decade there is also to be noted a striking change in the manner in which these hordes of students are spending their summer vacations. Time was, and not so long ago, when the only fit place for the undergraduate from June to September was a hammock, nicely fortified with cooling drinks and those strange things known as summer novels. In any other position he was considered anachronistic; somehow a winter occupied with scholastic endeavors demanded a quite idle and useless antidote.

Now, although not exactly a necessity to the maintenance of the national economic security, the student's capabilities are being realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy himself and learn. Education is restricted neither to the classroom, nor the nine hibernal months, and the summer is assuming the position of a laboratory, an opportunity for instructive and sometimes remunerative field work.