THE STRAIT PATH

The other side of a picture of decreasing college interest in non-academic activities is unveiled in the statements accompanying Dean Pound's disapproval of engagement in such interests by students of the Law School, where membership in a single extra-curricular organization is found to impede scholastic work dangerously. The undergraduate, doubtless endowed with more leisure than his elder brethren, prefers to devote himself to Widener and his classes; the graduate, in an atmosphere already charged with academic responsibility, drops from grace through the endeavor to add a number not already on his crowded program.

It becomes more and more evident that intense study is for most men incompatible with outside activities. The choice between the two must be made; and, as the emphasis on matters academic enlarges, the desire, and indeed the possibility, of participation in the wide field ranging from athletics to music and literary work, is lessened. Unquestionably the verdict for scholarship is a just one. Still, no one yet expects from the college student the singleness, of scholastic purpose teat characterizes the graduate; and the present mean is one beyond which the administration's requirements can go but little without weighing down The scale toward a college life perhaps too strictly academic.