--And Brain Tests

The Student Council had a brain storm at its meeting last Friday. Result: the College is to have a brain team, and will enter the intercollegiate culture contest field this semester.

The Campus heartily approves this action of the Council. Here is a field in which we can feel perfectly at home and at an advantage over most institutions; there is no doubt that a very fine group can be gathered at the College, one which will offer stiff competition to any college team in the country. C.C.N.Y. has long been silently revered for the quality of its scholarship; it now has the opportunity to give expression to that admiration. . . . .

If the brain contest does nothing else, it must serve to emphasize those things for which the college exists. The world today is prone to deny the devotion of college to a serious purpose and ideal; it has come to look upon college at its worst as a professional athletic center, and at its best as a place where the men attending do anything except study.

This glorified notion of college must be exploded. And the culture tilt is one way of counteracting the effect of gigantic athletic enterprises, and restoring an old emphasis upon the concept of college and higher education. --The Campus (College of the City of New York).