THE PRESS

Rowdyism by Harvard students on a subway train and, later, on the station platform at Harvard square, has besmirched the crimson. Apparently there is need, in the great university at Cambridge for a compulsory course in manners.

College students are a privileged class no doubt. They are selected by rigorous test as fit persons to receive an education. To pass those tests implies intelligence. It also implies a belief on the part of college authorities that persons admitted to undergraduate status will appreciate their privileges and opportunities and utilize them in training themselves for citizenship.

Rough-housing on a train--not even a special train but one shared by other passengers is no proof of superiority in brains or in courtesy. It yields no evidence that the young participants are any better than the most ordinary hoodlums. Boston Traveler