THE CROSS SECTION

The House Masters have consistently reiterated that they will bend every effort towards making their Houses represent a cross section of The College. There can be no airtight method of arriving at a true cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties of the situation.

The questions published in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON give some indication of the various classes which the House Masters have considered important and is obviously well adapted to their purpose. The problem of working up the data will be a hard one, and even if an absolutely exact cross section of College were possible there are times when a departure from this ideal would seem advisable especially at first when there are but a few Houses, the masters will be particularly justified in taking more than a pro rata allowance from such groups as students from other nations, if these men seem particularly well qualified for admission to the House.